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Black Swan Green de David Mitchell

Black Swan Green

Autor David Mitchell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 feb 2007

Reținem, înainte de orice, imaginea unui ceas spart — cel al bunicului — pe care Jason Taylor încearcă cu disperare să-l înlocuiască înainte ca absența lui să fie remarcată. Acest mic act de disimulare devine poarta de intrare în universul fragil din Black Swan Green, un roman care transformă un an din viața unui adolescent într-o geografie a pierderii și a descoperirii. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care David Mitchell ancorează narațiunea în realitatea aspră a Angliei anului 1982; între jocurile de putere de tip Kissinger jucate pe un lac înghețat și ecourile Războiului Malvinelor, autorul construiește o lume care este orice, numai adormită nu. Apreciem structura ingenioasă a cărții: cele treisprezece capitole pot fi citite ca povestiri independente, dar împreună formează portretul coerent al unui băiat care învață să navigheze printre cruzimile colegilor, primele experiențe amoroase și tăcerile grele dintr-o familie aflată în pragul divorțului. Ca și Metroland de Julian Barnes, acest roman explorează rătăcirile și cinismul protector al adolescenței, însă Black Swan Green se distinge printr-o sensibilitate aproape lirică față de detaliile mărunte ale vieții rurale și prin vocea onestă a lui Jason. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare reprezintă o schimbare de ritm față de complexitatea caleidoscopică din Cloud Atlas sau elementele fantastice din The Bone Clocks. Aici, David Mitchell demonstrează că poate fi la fel de fascinant în registrul realismului psihologic, păstrând totodată acea precizie a limbajului care i-a adus recunoașterea internațională. Este o meditație profundă despre pragul dintre copilărie și maturitate, pictată cu culorile vii ale unei epoci în plină transformare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812974010
ISBN-10: 0812974018
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 141 x 209 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Random House
Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Black Swan Green oricărui cititor care apreciază romanele de formare scrise cu o mână de maestru. Veți câștiga o perspectivă empatică asupra vulnerabilității adolescentine, totul pe fundalul unei Anglii thatcheriste redate cu o acuratețe istorică impecabilă. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care caută o poveste despre curajul de a-ți găsi propria voce într-o lume care pare adesea ostilă diferențelor.

Despre autor

David Mitchell este unul dintre cei mai apreciați scriitori britanici contemporani, de două ori finalist al Booker Prize și câștigător al Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence pentru întreaga carieră. Renumit pentru capacitatea sa de a jongla cu genuri și structuri narative complexe în opere precum Cloud Atlas sau Utopia Avenue, Mitchell locuiește în prezent în Irlanda. Pe lângă romanele sale, este cunoscut pentru scenariile unor producții precum Sense8 sau Matrix: Resurrections și pentru traducerile din limba japoneză ale memoriilor lui Naoki Higashida.

Recenzii

" Mitchell's rendering of time and place in this new book has a warm and lived-in feel. . . . [W]hat Mitchell has set out to do here - to capture the flux of youth, and to dazzle the reader with everyday, awkward human interaction rather than clever narrative conceits - is risky and rewarding. . . . Mitchell's obvious efforts to please the reader work wonderfully, and the novel is never less than tremendously engaging. . . ."
-- "Toronto Star"
" Warmly personal, funny and as matter-of-fact and grounded as [Mitchell' s] other books are enigmatic and lofty, Black Swan Green has a strong autobiographical flavour. . . . An easy and enjoyable read, Black Swan Green is at its most compelling when the dialogue is fraught with tension. . . . [I]t offers more in the way of intimacy [than Mitchell's other work]: It offers a friendship with its precocious and well-meaning young narrator that persists well beyond the last word."
-- "The Globe and Mail"
Praise for David Mitchell:
" David Mitchell entices his readers on to a rollercoaster. . . . Then - at least in my case - they can't bear the journey to end. . .a complete narrative pleasure that is rare. . . .Powerful and elegant. . . . He isn't afraid to jerk tears or ratchet up suspense - he understands that's what we make stories for. . . . He plays delicious games with other people's voices, ideas and characters."
-- A. S. Byatt, "The Guardian "(UK)
" Audacious, exhilarating. . . . A formidable creation. . . . [Mitchell' s] brilliance takes one's breath away in a manner not unlike afirst experience of Chartres or the Duomo. It is a pleasure to sit inside such an edifice, and to marvel. Repeat visits are in order. Each time, a little more structure is revealed. Each time, the space grows less intimidating. Until, finally, it is just a book, one that you are reading with amazement and delight."
-- "The Globe and Mail"
Praise for "Cloud Atlas":
" Cloud Atlas is a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative."
-- People
" Mitchell has the imagination and technique to deliver a fully figured world with its own language, landscape and customs. An astonishing range of textures and voices are combined to make these worlds feel real. . . . An exorbitant artistic effort has yielded an overwhelming literary creation. . . . Mitchell's storytelling in Cloud Atlas is of the best."
-- "The Independent" "From the Hardcover edition."

"Mitchell's rendering of time and place in this new book has a warm and lived-in feel. . . . [W]hat Mitchell has set out to do here - to capture the flux of youth, and to dazzle the reader with everyday, awkward human interaction rather than clever narrative conceits - is risky and rewarding. . . . Mitchell's obvious efforts to please the reader work wonderfully, and the novel is never less than tremendously engaging. . . ."
--"Toronto Star"
"Warmly personal, funny and as matter-of-fact and grounded as [Mitchell's] other books are enigmatic and lofty, Black Swan Green has a strong autobiographical flavour. . . . An easy and enjoyable read, Black Swan Green is at its most compelling when the dialogue is fraught with tension. . . . [I]t offers more in the way of intimacy [than Mitchell's other work]: It offers a friendship with its precocious and well-meaning young narrator that persists well beyond the last word."
--"The Globe and Mail"
Praise for David Mitchell
"David Mitchell entices his readers on to a rollercoaster. . . . Then - at least in my case - they can't bear the journey to end. . .a complete narrative pleasure that is rare. . . .Powerful and elegant. . . . He isn't afraid to jerk tears or ratchet up suspense - he understands that's what we make stories for. . . . He plays delicious games with other people's voices, ideas and characters."
--A. S. Byatt, "The Guardian "(UK)
"Audacious, exhilarating. . . . A formidable creation. . . . [Mitchell's] brilliance takes one's breath away in a manner not unlike a first experience of Chartres or the Duomo. It is a pleasure to sit inside such an edifice, and to marvel. Repeat visits are in order. Each time, a little more structure is revealed. Each time, the space grows less intimidating. Until, finally, it is just a book, one that you are reading with amazement and delight."
--"The Globe and Mail"
Praise for "Cloud Atlas"
"Cloud Atlas is a head rush, both action-pack
"[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like."--"The Boston Globe"

"[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall."--"Time"

"[A] brilliant new novel . . . In Jason, Mitchell creates an evocation yet authentically adolescent voice."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Alternately nostalgic, funny and heartbreaking."--"The Washington Post"

"Great Britain's "Catcher in the Rye"--and another triumph for one of the present age's most interesting and accomplished novelists."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)

"This book is so entertainingly strange, so packed with activity, adventures, and diverting banter, that you only realize as the extraordinary novel concludes that the timid boy has grown before your eyes into a capable young man."--"Entertainment Weekly"


"From the Hardcover edition."

Notă biografică

David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of "The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, "and" Ghostwritten." Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by "Time" in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir "The Reason I Jump." He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. "From the Hardcover edition."

Descriere

By the "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Bone Clocks" and "Cloud Atlas "- Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Selected by "Time "as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year""- A "New York Times" Notable Book - Named One of the Best Books of the Year by "The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, "and" Kirkus Reviews "- A "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize Finalist - Winner of the ALA Alex Award - Finalist for the Costa Novel Award
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
"Black Swan Green" tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik""enacted in boys' games on a frozen lake; of "nightcreeping" through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigre who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, "Black Swan Green "is David Mitchell's subtlest and most effective achievement to date.
Praise for "Black Swan Green"
" "
"[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like."--"The Boston Globe"
"[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall."--"Time"
"[A] brilliant new novel . . . In Jason, Mitchell creates an evocation yet authentically adolescent voice."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Alternately nostalgic, funny and heartbreaking."--"The Washington Post"
"Great Britain's "Catcher in the Rye"--and another triumph for one of the present age's most interesting and accomplished novelists."--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"This book is so entertainingly strange, so packed with activity, adventures, and diverting banter, that you only realize as the extraordinary novel concludes that the timid boy has grown before your eyes into a capable young man."--"Entertainment Weekly" "From the Hardcover edition."