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Everything I Never Told You: 'a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense' O, the Oprah Magazine de Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You: 'a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense' O, the Oprah Magazine

Autor Celeste Ng
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2014

„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: 9780349134284
ISBN-10: 0349134286
Pagini: 297
Dimensiuni: 131 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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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.

Descriere

Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened. Everything I Never Told You is a gripping page-turner, about secrets, love, longing, lies and race.

Recenzii

This intriguing tale of unhappy families will have you gripped from the opening line . . . No wonder it beat Hilary Mantel and Stephen King to win Amazon's book of the year
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 mind The Lovely Bones
An acute portrait of family psychopathology - this debut crime thriller is a surprise choice as Amazon's book of the year... There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges...Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict on their children and on each other
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
[A] moving tale . . . of daughters for whom cultural disconnect is but the first challenge
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
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
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
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
I couldn't stop reading Everything I Never Told You . . . the writing is so smooth and keenly observed. The portrait of each member of the Lee family, the exploration of their mixed-race issues and the search for the killer of their sister and daughter, Lydia, pulled at my heartstrings to the very end
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
Ng expertly explores and exposes the Lee family's secrets... These long-hidden, quietly explosive truths, weighted by issues of race and gender, slowly bubble to the surface of Ng's sensitive, absorbing novel and reverberate long after its final page. Ng's emotionally complex debut novel sucks you in like a strong current and holds you fast until its final secrets surface
Ng constructs a mesmerizing narrative that shrinks enormous issues of race, prejudice, identity, and gender into the miniaturist dynamics of a single family. A breathtaking triumph, reminiscent of prophetic debuts by Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, and ­Chimamanda Adichie, whose first titles matured into spectacular, continuing literary legacies
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
'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 favourite 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 all into chaos.

A profoundly moving story of secrets and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, about love, lies and race.

Praise for Everything I Never Told You

'My only concern in describing my profound admiration for Everything I Never Told You is that it might raise unachievable expectations in the reader. But it's that good.' Amazon.com's #1 Best Book of 2014

'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.' Alexander Chee, The New York Times Book Review

Notă biografică

Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, in a family of scientists. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan), where she won the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in "One Story," "TriQuarterly," "Bellevue Literary Review," the "Kenyon Review Online," and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.