1st Story: 4/5 
 2nd story: 5/5 (so much fun to read this one) 
 3rd story: 4,5/5 
 4th story: 4,75/5 
 5th story: 4,75/5 
 6th story: 3,5/5 
 7th story: 3,5/5 
 8th story: 4/5 
 9th story: 3,5/5 
 Total: 4+ 
 One of those books I loved, but can comprehend (and allow :-) others not to love or even to hate. Especially the first 3 stories are really masculin: written from man to man. 
 These 9 stories are barely intertwined, so I would rather call this a short story collection, except for this great concept: here are nine stories about nine men and with each story the man is older. From seventeen untill eighty something. Europe functions as multi faceted, but always catastrophic capitalist background. 
 The style is mostly realism. Everyday life in it's purist form. I cannot retrace books that contained more real and truthfull dialogues, which also means that some of them are a bit ordinary and uninteresting. But that's life. It's all that man is: some kind of loser unable to grasp time and avoid mistakes and regret. 
 I would give it a try!