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A Hundred Small Lessons

Autor Ashley Hay
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În genul ficțiunii contemporane, unde adesea dinamica este dictată de conflicte exterioare, A Hundred Small Lessons subversează așteptările, mutând întreaga intensitate în spațiul domestic și în arhitectura fragilă a memoriei. Observăm cum Ashley Hay construiește un dialog tăcut între două generații care nu se întâlnesc fizic, dar care împart aceeași geografie intimă a unei case din Brisbane. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de profundă: Elsie Gormley este nevoită să își părăsească căminul după șase decenii, lăsând locul tinerei Lucy Kiss, care încearcă să își găsească echilibrul între libertatea de odinioară și responsabilitățile copleșitoare de proaspătă mamă.

Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The Time is Now de Pauline Mclynn, prin felul în care pereții unei locuințe devin martori ai trecerii timpului, deși vocea lui Hay este mult mai contemplativă și axată pe „lecțiile mici” care alcătuiesc o viață. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care granița dintre trecut și prezent devine poroasă; pe măsură ce Lucy descoperă secretele casei, experiențele lui Elsie — de la naivitatea tinereții la singurătatea văduviei — încep să reverbereze în prezentul noii locatare.

Această abordare amintește de temele explorate de autoare în The Railwayman's Wife, unde trauma și pierderea erau filtrate prin frumusețea limbajului. Dacă în lucrările sale de non-ficțiune, precum Gum, Hay analizează identitatea australiană prin prisma peisajului natural, aici ea reușește să facă același lucru prin prisma spațiului locuit. Ritmul este așezat, invitând la o lectură reflexivă despre cum locurile pe care le numim „acasă” ne modelează identitatea și despre firele invizibile care leagă destinele umane peste decenii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501165146
ISBN-10: 1501165143
Pagini: 304
Greutate: 0.25 kg

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză densă, emoționantă și plină de nuanțe. Este o explorare superbă a maternității și a modului în care ne transformăm odată cu trecerea timpului. Dacă v-au plăcut romanele semnate de Elizabeth Strout sau introspecția din scrierile lui Yiyun Li, veți descoperi în Ashley Hay o voce capabilă să transforme banalul cotidian în ceva de-a dreptul luminos.


Despre autor

Ashley Hay este o scriitoare australiană de renume internațional, stabilită în Brisbane, a cărei operă pendulează între ficțiunea istorică și non-ficțiunea dedicată științei și naturii. Romanul său anterior, The Railwayman's Wife, a fost recompensat cu premiul Colin Roderick și s-a aflat pe lista lungă a prestigiosului Miles Franklin Literary Award. Stilul său este recunoscut pentru eleganța frazei și capacitatea de a portretiza cu finețe complexitatea relațiilor umane. Hay a editat, de asemenea, antologii de scriere științifică, demonstrând o curiozitate intelectuală vastă care se reflectă în precizia observațiilor din romanele sale.


Descriere scurtă

Through the richly intertwined narratives of two women from different generations, Ashley Hay, known for her "elegant prose, which draws warm and textured portraits as it celebrates the web of human stories" (New York Times Book Review) weaves an intricate, bighearted tale of the many small decisions--the invisible moments--that come to make a life.

"Readers who loved the quiet introspection of Anita Shreve's The Pilot's Wife and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge will enjoy the detailed emotional journeys of Hay's characters. Their stories will linger long after the final page is turned" (Library Journal).

When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of sixty-two years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to make the house their own. Still, Lucy can't help but feel that she's unwittingly stumbled into an entirely new life--new house, new city, new baby--and she struggles to navigate the journey from adventurous lover to young parent.

In her nearby nursing facility, Elsie traces the years she spent in her beloved house, where she too transformed from a naive newlywed into a wife and mother, and eventually, a widow. Gradually, the boundary between present and past becomes more porous for her, and for Lucy--because the house has secrets of its own, and its rooms seem to share with Lucy memories from Elsie's life.

Luminous and deeply affecting, A Hundred Small Lessons is a "lyrically written portrayal" (BookPage, Top Pick) of what it means to be human, and how a place can transform who we are. It's about a house that becomes much more than a home, and the shifting identities of mother and daughter; father and son. Above all else, this is a story of the surprising and miraculous ways that our lives intersect with those who have come before us, and those who follow.


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'I love Ashley Hay's writing . . . it's so poised and beautiful.' Guardian
'A moving and lyrical story of marriage, motherhood and age. Highly recommend.' Cari Rosen, author of The Secret Diary of a New Mum (Aged 43 1/4)

When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents, taking comfort in memories of their vibrant past as they begin to unearth who their future selves might be. But the house has secrets of its own, and the rooms seem to share recollections of Elsie's life with Lucy.

In her nearby nursing home, Elsie traces the span of her life-the moments she can't bear to let go and the places to which she dreams of returning. Her beloved former house is at the heart of her memories of marriage, motherhood, love, and death, and the boundary between present and past becomes increasingly porous for both her and Lucy.

Over the course of one hot Brisbane summer, two families' stories intersect in sudden and unexpected ways. Through the richly intertwined narratives of two ordinary, extraordinary women, Ashley Hay uses her lyrical prose, poetic dialogue, and stunning imagery to weave an intricate, bighearted story of what it is to be human.

Recenzii

I love Ashley Hay's writing ... it's so poised and beautiful. And I know Ashley, and she writes as she is. I always like that in a person: when the writing that they do is very much the person that you get, it has an integrity about it that I enjoy ... She can't write a bad sentence
A moving and lyrical story of marriage, motherhood and age. Highly recommend.
Hay's engaging third novel explores the lives of two women connected by a house. In Brisbane, Australia, Lucy Kiss; her husband, Ben; and their young son, Tom, have just moved into the home where Elsie Gormley lived for more than 60 years. Hay's perceptive prose illuminates both Elsie's and Lucy's lives, resulting in a rich dual character study that spans generations.
Readers who loved the quiet introspection of Anita Shreve's The Pilot's Wife and Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge will enjoy the detailed emotional journeys of Hay's characters. Their stories will linger.
Hay renders the small details of an undramatic, decent life with tenderness that is touching and compelling... a measured piece of writing that works carefully to create pensive and evocative images of time and place and people.
Ashley Hay explores the ways in which we inhabit spaces: building homes and filling them with our possessions, dreams, regrets, fears and secrets. I was deeply touched by this graceful novel, with its unflinching approach to reality and its gentle undercurrents of sadness, nostalgia and hope. It is a highly recommended read for fans of literary fiction and Hay's own award-­winning The Railwayman's Wife.
A Hundred Small Lessons holds powerful truths, simply told ... There is no definitive moment; instead, ideas are layered, one small action at a time, until the whole is revealed. Only then can we see the intricacy of the story, in which the river's flowing quality is present within each sentence, the moods and tides reflective of the transformative power of parenthood
With a lovely attention to the detail of things and feelings, Hay enlists our concern for her characters and an appreciation for the revealing echoes they call up in our own lives