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Ceremony of Innocence (2013)

di Dorothy Cummings McLean

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Scottish Catholic journalist Catriona McClelland comes home to her Frankfurt apartment to find her German ex-boyfriend Dennis sitting nervously on the couch. Police arrive. A Canadian student, Suzy Davis, has been drowned, and both Cat and Dennis are suspects in her murder. Subsequent police interviews trigger Cat's memories of her reluctant friendship with Suzy, an enthusiastic supporter of leftwing organizations. The two women had become acquainted while terrorist bombings, student unrest and neo-Nazi riots brought Germany to a boiling point. Cat had tried to maintain her professional aloofness while writing reports on these events, but the political became personal when Suzy fell for Dennis and forced Cat to confront her hypocrisy in refusing either to marry the much younger man or to let him go.Ripped from the headlines, Ceremony of Innocence is a very contemporary novel of Europe on the edge of social breakdown. Train stations are bombed and migrants targeted for violence as journalists and other tastemakers watch from their positions of privilege.Cummings' realistic narrative does not describe the feats of heroes. Rather, it unnervingly lays bare the way religious faith and moral reasoning can be easily manipulated and compromised.… (altro)
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Graham Greene's The Quiet American retold in modern-day Germany, Ceremony of Innocence is a bit more blatantly Catholic than its predecessor, but that doesn't stop it from making interesting reading. Catriona (Fowler) is a divorced Scottish Canadian journalist for a Catholic news agency who has spent the past two years living with her much younger boyfriend Dennis (Phuong) in Frankfurt, Germany. He wants to get married, but she's still scarred from her rash first marriage and puts him off with the promise that when her annulment comes through she'll marry him. Their lives are forever changed by the appearance of Canadian language student and peace activist Suzy (Pyle), who falls in love with Dennis and wants to save him and his soul via Islam. But Suzy has interesting friends and even more interesting beliefs, and ultimately Catriona has to choose between her friend and everything she values most.

The gender-flipping of the original story is what made it interesting for me, the random bombings and violence were a plus. If you've ever enjoyed The Quiet American you should at least seek this one out at the library, but it still makes for good reading even if you've never read Greene's novel. ( )
  inge87 | Sep 18, 2014 |
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Scottish Catholic journalist Catriona McClelland comes home to her Frankfurt apartment to find her German ex-boyfriend Dennis sitting nervously on the couch. Police arrive. A Canadian student, Suzy Davis, has been drowned, and both Cat and Dennis are suspects in her murder. Subsequent police interviews trigger Cat's memories of her reluctant friendship with Suzy, an enthusiastic supporter of leftwing organizations. The two women had become acquainted while terrorist bombings, student unrest and neo-Nazi riots brought Germany to a boiling point. Cat had tried to maintain her professional aloofness while writing reports on these events, but the political became personal when Suzy fell for Dennis and forced Cat to confront her hypocrisy in refusing either to marry the much younger man or to let him go.Ripped from the headlines, Ceremony of Innocence is a very contemporary novel of Europe on the edge of social breakdown. Train stations are bombed and migrants targeted for violence as journalists and other tastemakers watch from their positions of privilege.Cummings' realistic narrative does not describe the feats of heroes. Rather, it unnervingly lays bare the way religious faith and moral reasoning can be easily manipulated and compromised.

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