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Everything I Never Told You de Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You

Autor Celeste Ng
Notă:  4.00 · o notă - 1 recenzie 
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2015

„Lydia a murit. Dar ei nu știu asta încă.” Cu această imagine tăioasă, care spulberă liniștea unei dimineți obișnuite din Ohio-ul anilor '70, Celeste Ng ne introduce în inima unei tragedii domestice care este, în egală măsură, un mister și o elegie. Descoperim aici familia Lee, un nucleu fragil unde tăcerile cântăresc mai mult decât cuvintele rostite. Lydia, copilul care poartă pe umeri povara speranțelor ambilor părinți — dorința mamei de a vedea în ea medicul care ea n-a putut fi și nevoia tatălui ca fiica sa să se integreze perfect într-o lume care îi privește mereu ca pe niște străini — devine punctul de fractură al întregului univers familial.

Stilul este contemplativ și de o precizie chirurgicală, amintind de modul în care autoarea va explora ulterior tensiunile sociale în Little Fires Everywhere. Totuși, Everything I Never Told You se simte mai intim, mai concentrat pe felul în care traumele transgeneraționale și microagresiunile rasiale se infiltrează în gesturile cotidiene. Cine a citit Searching for Sylvie Lee de Jean Kwok va recunoaște aici tema dureroasă a fiicei „perfecte” a unei familii de imigranți care dispare, lăsând în urmă un gol imposibil de umplut. Însă, spre deosebire de abordarea lui Kwok, Ng alege să ne ofere perspectiva tăcută a mezinei Hannah, singura care observă fisurile din zidul de aparențe al familiei.

În contextul operei sale, acest roman de debut stabilește temele recurente ale lui Ng: izolarea în suburbii și greutatea așteptărilor parentale, teme pe care le regăsim și în Our Missing Hearts, dar aici ele sunt distilate într-o structură narativă de roman polițist inversat. Nu este vorba doar despre „cine a făcut-o”, ci despre „ce ne-am făcut unii altora” prin tot ceea ce am ales să nu ne spunem.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143127550
ISBN-10: 0143127551
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin LLC US
Colecția Penguin Books

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Anonim a dat nota:

Such a heartbreaking! It's a really tragic story about how a family falls completely apart after the supposed suicide of their daughter. It's sometimes so baffling how many secrets and resentment can people have towards each other.

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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o proză psihologică profundă, unde misterul servește drept pretext pentru o analiză fină a identității și a presiunii de a corespunde. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă tulburătoare asupra modului în care dragostea părintească poate deveni sufocantă atunci când este confundată cu posesia. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii dramelor de familie complexe, precum cele scrise de Nancy Jooyoun Kim.

Despre autor

Celeste Ng a crescut în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania și Shaker Heights, Ohio, medii care i-au influențat profund scriitura, în special prin explorarea dinamicii suburbane. Absolventă a Universității Harvard și cu un master în arte frumoase la Universitatea din Michigan, Ng s-a impus rapid ca o voce majoră în literatura contemporană americană. Debutul său, Everything I Never Told You, a fost tradus în peste treizeci de limbi și a primit numeroase distincții, fiind urmat de succesul internațional Little Fires Everywhere. Opera sa se distinge prin sensibilitatea cu care abordează temele rasismului, apartenenței și legăturilor de familie.

Notă biografică

CELESTE NG grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.

Recenzii

Alexander Chee, "The New York Times Book Review: "
If we know this story, we haven t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now Ng has set two tasks in this novel s doubled heart to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won t share What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind a burden you do not always survive.
"Los Angeles Times: "
Excellent an accomplished debut heart-wrenching Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel."Everything I Never Told You"is an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together and that finally end up tearing it apart.
"Boston Globe: "
Wonderfully moving Emotionally precise A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief [This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama.
"San Francisco Chronicle: "
A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders and in the heads of thenext Ng deftly and convincingly illustrates the degree to which some miscommunications can never quite berectified.
"O, The Oprah Magazine: "
Cleverly crafted, emotionally perceptive Ng sensitively dramatizes issues of gender and race that lie at the heart of the story Ng s themes of assimilation are themselves deftly interlaced into a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.
"Los Angeles Review of Books: "
Ng moves gracefully back and forth in time, into the aftermath of the tragedy as well as the distant past, and into the consciousness of each member of the family, creating a series of mysteries and revelations that lead back to the original question: what happened to Lydia?...Ng is masterful in her use of the omniscient narrator, achieving both a historical distance and visceral intimacy with each character s struggles and failures On the surface, Ng s storylines are nothing new. There is a mysterious death, a family pulled apart by misunderstanding and grief, a struggle to fit into the norms of society, yet in the weaving of these threads she creates a work of ambitious complexity. In the end, this novel movingly portrays the burden of difference at a time when difference had no cultural value Compelling.
"Entertainment Weekly: "
Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family, Ng s explosive debut chronicles the plight of Marilyn and James Lee after their favored daughter is found dead in a lake.
"Marie Claire: "
The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee s tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mindThe Lovely Bones.
"Huffington Post: "
A powerhouse of a debut novel, a literary mystery crafted out of shimmering prose and precise, painful observation about racial barriers, the burden of familial expectations, and the basic human thirst for belonging Ng s novel grips readers from page one with the hope of unraveling the mystery behind Lydia s death and boy does it deliver, on every front.
Chris Schluep, "Parade"
The first chapter of Celeste Ng s debut novel is difficult the oldest daughter in a family is dead but what follows is a brilliantly written, surprisingly uplifting exploration of striving in the face of alienation and of the secrets we keep from others. This could be my favorite novel of the year.
Kevin Nguyen, "Grantland"
The emotional core of Celeste Ng s debut is what sets it apart. The different ways in which the Lee family handles Lydia s death create internal friction, and most impressive is the way Ng handles racial politics. With a deft hand, she loads and unpacks the implications of being the only Chinese American family in a small town in Ohio.
"Cleveland Plain-Dealer: "
Beautiful and poignant . deftly drawn .It s hard to believe that this is a debut novel for Celeste Ng. She tackles the themes of family dynamics, gender and racial stereotyping, and the weight of expectations, all with insight made more powerful through understatement. She has an exact, sophisticated touch with her prose. The sentences are straightforward. She evokes emotions through devastatingly detailed observations.
"Minneapolis Star Tribune: "
Perceptive a skillful and moving portrayal of a family in pain It is to Ng s credit that it is sometimes difficult for the reader to keep going; the pain and unhappiness is palpable. But it is true to the Lees, and Ng tells all.
"St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "
Impressive In its evocation of a time and place and society largely gone but hardly forgotten, "Everything I Never Told You"tells much that today s reader should learn, ponder and appreciate.
Amanda Nelson, "Book Riot: "
On the surface, this is about a mixed-race Asian-American family dealing with and trying to solve the mysterious death of their favorite teenaged daughter in 70s Ohio (this isn t a spoiler, it happens in the first sentence). What it s really about all the ways we can be an other in society, in our own marriages, in our jobs, and to our parents or children. It s also about pressure the pressure to be with people who are like ourselves, and to fit in, and to be everything our parents want us to be. It s about giving up your career to become a wife and mother, and what that means and doesn t mean. It s about dealing with prejudice. It s about secrets and happiness and misery, and all the things we never tell the people we love. It s about everything, is what I m saying, and not a single word is wasted or superfluous. "

Descriere

"New York Times "Bestseller . A "New York Times Book Review "Editor s Choice . Winner of the Alex Award.Winner of the APALA Award for Fiction
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
NPR . "San Francisco Chronicle ." "Entertainment Weekly ." ""The Huffington Post ".""Buzzfeed ." "Amazon ." "Grantland ." "Booklist ." "St. Louis Post Dispatch ." "Shelf Awareness .Book Riot ." "School Library Journal ." "Bustle ." "Time Out New York .Mashable . Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Lydia is dead. But they don t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, "Everything I Never Told You "is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another."