Akin: A Novel
Autor Emma Donoghueen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2020
Observăm în Donoghue, E: Akin o structură narativă construită pe dinamica fragilă a unui duo improbabil, unde prezentul și trecutul se intersectează pe străzile însorite ale Rivierei Franceze. Emma Donoghue abandonează spațiul claustrofobic care a consacrat-o în Room pentru a ne oferi o explorare vastă, în aer liber, a memoriei transgeneraționale. Povestea începe cu o coliziune între două lumi: un profesor de optzeci de ani, riguros și atașat de liniștea sa, și un copil de unsprezece ani, marcat de pierdere și captiv în universul ecranelor digitale. Călătoria lor spre Nisa nu este doar o vacanță, ci o investigație aproape detectivistică în arhivele personale ale unei mame care a supraviețuit ocupației naziste. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea echilibrează tonul melancolic al regretelor bătrâneții cu umorul involuntar ce apare din „șocul cultural” dintre cei doi. Disputele despre gastronomie sau timpul petrecut pe tabletă devin, treptat, punți de comunicare. Imaginați-vă tensiunea emoțională și legătura dintre generații din The Last Adventure of Napoleon Sunshine, mutată într-un decor de cercetare istorică riguroasă, unde fiecare fotografie veche descoperită în Franța rescrie identitatea ambelor personaje. Spre deosebire de alte titluri care explorează traumele de familie, Donoghue, E: Akin nu se refugiază în sentimentalism, ci păstrează o claritate sobră, similară stilului din And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella de Fredrik Backman, în ceea ce privește efortul de a păstra vie memoria în fața trecerii timpului. Este o proză despre cum ne reconstruim după doliu, învățând că suntem mai apropiați de strămoșii noștri decât am fi bănuit inițial.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1443458961
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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Descriere scurtă
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when he receives an unexpected request. A social worker is looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Although he has never met the boy, Noah is convinced to take Michael with him to France.
Suffering from jet lag and culture shock, the odd couple argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip shows every sign of being a disaster. But Michael’s skill with tech and his sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past. Eventually they both come to understand that people of all eras run risks on behalf of their loved ones. In learning this they discover that they are more akin than they knew.
Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick the threads of their painful stories and start to write a new one together.
Recenzii
“Emma Donoghue again demonstrates her facility for tension-ridden storytelling and unusual empathy.” — NOW Magazine
“A quietly delightful read, perfectly calibrated for deep enjoyment.” — The Globe and Mail
“Donoghue’s sparkling story is both inventive and thought-provoking.” — London Free Press
Praise for The Wonder: —
“Heartbreaking and transcendent” — New York Times
“Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep” — USA Today
“A tense gothic page-turner in which nobody, including the unreliable nurse narrator, are entirely what they seem. A powerful exploration of religion and the sway it holds, The Wonder is equal parts psychological drama and unorthodox love story. A thoroughly enjoyable read from one of the country’s premier storytellers.” — Toronto Star
“[B]ack with a novel as gripping and intense as the popular Room. The Wonder, is set in 1850s Ireland and will undoubtedly also be adapted to the big screen. The prose is so intensely alive, so cinematic that you truly can see the action unfolding before your eyes.” — Ottawa Citizen
“Her contemporary thriller Room (2010) made the author an international bestseller, but this gripping tale offers a welcome reminder that her historical fiction is equally fine.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Donoghue’s literary prowess creeps like a dark, menacing fog across the pages.” — Quill & Quire
Praise for Room: —
“Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can’t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it’s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory.” — Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
“Claustrophobic, controversial, brilliant . . . inventive, tense, and stringently intelligent.” — Maclean's
“Remarkable . . . heartrending. . . . Both gripping and poignant, it’s a tribute to human resourcefulness and resilience and extremity, and a stirring portrait of a mother’s devotion.” — Toronto Star
“Thrilling and at moments palm-sweatingly harrowing.” — New York Times Book Review
Descriere
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room. 'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - Guardian A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets. Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael helps Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, they find they are more akin than they knew. Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together. 'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' - Woman & Home