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All the Birds, Singing de Evie Wyld

All the Birds, Singing

Autor Evie Wyld
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2015

La prima vedere, romanul All the Birds, Singing pare a fi o cronică austeră a izolării rurale, o poveste despre supraviețuirea unei femei la o fermă dintr-un arhipelag britanic biciuit de ploi. Însă, pe măsură ce înaintăm în lectură, descoperim o arhitectură narativă mult mai complexă și mai neliniștitoare, unde prezentul amenințat de o fiară invizibilă care îi masacrează oile se împletește cu un trecut traumatic, purtat de protagonistă ca o povară fizică pe propria piele. Jake Whyte nu este doar o fermieră solitară; este o supraviețuitoare care a traversat continente pentru a-și îngropa amintirile în tăcere și asprimea peisajului insular.

Subliniem măiestria cu care Evie Wyld construiește o atmosferă de tensiune psihologică, unde natura nu este doar decor, ci un participant activ la starea de veghe a personajului. Pe același raft cu Ten White Geese de Gerbrand Bakker, această carte se distinge prin forța viscerală a limbajului și prin modul în care fragmentează timpul pentru a dezvălui, strat cu strat, motivele exilului autoimpus al lui Jake. Dacă în Everything is Teeth autoarea explora obsesia copilăriei față de prădătorii marini, iar în The Bass Rock lega destinele femeilor peste secole prin traume comune, în All the Birds, Singing ea perfecționează tema vulnerabilității umane în fața violenței, fie ea animalică sau socială. Ritmul este unul calculat, alternând între brutalitatea faptelor și momente de o frumusețe neașteptată, oferind o experiență de lectură densă, care refuză rezolvările facile în favoarea unei mântuiri câștigate cu greu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780345802507
ISBN-10: 0345802500
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută o proză de o precizie chirurgicală și o atmosferă densă, specifică literaturii contemporane de calitate. Este o carte despre costul tăcerii și despre imposibilitatea de a fugi de propriul trecut, oferind un studiu psihologic profund sub forma unui mister rural captivant. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra rezilienței umane, filtrată prin talentul uneia dintre cele mai apreciate voci ale generației sale.

Despre autor

Evie Wyld a crescut între Australia și Londra, experiență care îi hrănește adesea temele legate de peisaje contrastante și izolare. A studiat scrierea creativă la Goldsmiths, University of London, și a fost rapid recunoscută ca una dintre cele mai importante voci ale literaturii britanice actuale. Inclusă de revista Granta în topul celor mai buni tineri romancieri, Wyld este laureată a numeroaselor distincții prestigioase, printre care Miles Franklin Literary Award și John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Opera sa pendulează între realism și elemente de o stranietate memorabilă, explorând adesea trauma și relația omului cu mediul înconjurător.

Notă biografică

EVIE WYLD grew up in Australia and London, where she currently resides. Her first novel, "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, "won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award, and "All the Birds, Singing "won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Encore Award for Best Second Novel. Wyld has also been short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Costa Novel Award, and long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Descriere

From one of "Granta"'s Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past.
Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds, with only her collie and a flock of sheep as companions. But something--or someone--has begun picking off her sheep one by one. There are foxes in the woods, a strange man wandering the island, and rumors of a mysterious beast prowling at night. And there is Jake's relentless past--one she tried to escape thousands of miles away and years ago, concealed in stubborn silence and isolation and the scars that stripe her back. With exceptional artistry, "All the Birds, Singing" plumbs a life of fierce struggle and survival, sounding depths of unexpected beauty and hard-won redemption.

Recenzii

**One of the Best Books of the Year in the "Guardian, New Statesman, Independent, Observer"**
**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, and the Costa Award for Best Novel**
**Winner of the Encore Award for Best Second Novel**
**Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award**
"Daring and fierce. . . . From the very first sentence of Wyld's brilliantly unsettling novel, you're thrust into a world of violence, dread, and psychological mystery. . . . The writing flood[s] every page with menace." --"The Boston Globe
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"Swift and assured and emotionally wrenching. You won't only root for Jake, you'll see the world, hard facts and all, more clearly through her telling." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Broodingly lyrical. . . . Casts a spellbinding breadcrumb trail back in time to reveal the origins of Jake's banishment--and the darker mysteries of human nature." --"Vogue"
"Purely gorgeous. . . . Wyld ramps up the tension. . . . There's love as well as dread in this book, a surprising sort of love--the best kind of all." --"The Washington Post"
"Gloriously gruesome [and] lushly visceral. . . . To say that Wyld's writing makes the art of sheep shearing come alive for the reader may not sound like a particular compliment, but oh, it is--she makes it sing with flea-coated, dung-crusted eloquence. . . . Half of you wants to race through to find out what happens, half wants to pause over the dark, clotted sentences. And then the state of suspense becomes almost unbearable. . . . The final revelation, when it comes, is explosive." --"NPR.org"
"Dark and wickedly captivating. . . . It's nearly impossible not to get swept up in the game of merging the two stories by piecing together each clue Wyld keeps stashed away to reveal at the most opportune moment. . . . Think "Room "or "Winter's Bone"-style creepy. . . . A gripping novel." --"San Francisco Chronicle
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"A suspenseful and melancholy novel. . . . Wyld [demonstrates] masterful control. There are also surprising moments of lightness--the protagonist's dark humor, the author's unsentimental reverence for the natural world." --"The New Yorker
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"Utterly gripping. . . . The book has the brisk pacing of a well-thumbed pocket paperback found in a summer cottage, and yet it's the sort of book that gets listed as a best book of the year. . . . The mystery of what's going on with the sheep in "All the Birds, Singing," were it the book's only subject, would make for a fun read on its own. But the sheep are only the beginning." --"Salon
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"An atmosphere pungent with menace and panicked uncertainty. . . . Wyld teasingly leads readers to the mysterious incident Jake is trying to escape . . . Wyld keeps her readers in a blinkered state and then spooks them." --"The Wall Street Journal
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"Tantalizes. . . . The prose maintains a fine-tuned ominous mood. . . . The most impressive aspect of the novel is its structure." --"The New York Times"
"Wyld displays a fierce command of language. . . . She tackles a variety of difficult themes--memory and trauma chief among them--with considerable care." --"The Daily Beast"
"A tremendous achievement . . . A dark, powerfully disturbing and beautifully observed story . . . almost Nabokovian in its structural intricacy." --William Boyd, "New Statesman"
"Outstanding . . . Evie Wyld is the real thing . . . She reconfigures the conventions of storytelling with a sure-footedness and ambition which belie her age . . . Quite as good as Ian McEwan's early fiction." --"The Spectator"
"Extraordinarily accomplished, one of those books that tears around in your cerebellum like a dark firework, and which, upon finishing, you immediately want to pick up again." --"Financial Times"
"An intensely involving tale of survival, shot through with Wyld's distinctive wit . . . An indelible and atmospheric novel that will have the hairs on the back of your neck working overtime." --"Daily Mail"
"For once, the hype matches the talent . . . Wyld's writing seems to come from somewhere deep, somewhere a little bit unnerving." --"The Sunday Times "(London)
"Vividly drawn . . . When the birds do 'sing, ' and Jake's primal tragedy is revealed, it is clever and very unexpected indeed." --"The Guardian"