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Happiness de Aminatta Forna

Happiness

Autor Aminatta Forna
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2019

Considerăm că totul începe cu o imagine de o stranietate captivantă: o vulpe pășind solitar pe podul Waterloo, o prezență sălbatică în inima geometriei de oțel și piatră a Londrei. Această distracție vizuală provoacă o coliziune fizică între doi străini, Jean și Attila, marcând punctul de plecare al unui roman care refuză să vadă metropola doar ca pe un spațiu al izolării. Subliniem modul în care Aminatta Forna țese o pânză invizibilă de conexiuni umane prin intermediul celor „invizibili”: gunoieri, portari și paznici, majoritatea imigranți, care devin ochii și urechile unei căutări disperate pentru un copil pierdut. Observăm un ritm contemplativ, dar precis, în care observația clinică a psihiatrului Attila se împletește cu răbdarea de cercetător a lui Jean. Reținem că această lucrare amintește de Anil's Ghost prin profunzimea temelor despre pierdere și reziliență, dar se diferențiază prin modul în care integrează natura în peisajul urban, transformând vulpile în martori tăcuți ai supraviețuirii umane. În contextul operei sale, Happiness reprezintă o evoluție firească; dacă în The Memory of Love și The Hired Man autoarea analiza cicatricile lăsate de război și istorie, aici ea mută reflectorul asupra traumei cotidiene și a modului în care comunitatea poate oferi vindecare. Stilul este sobru și elegant, evitând sentimentalismul în favoarea unei analize oneste a ceea ce înseamnă coexistența într-o lume fragmentată.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802129185
ISBN-10: 0802129188
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 207 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză de o inteligență rară, care îmbină studiul comportamental cu o poveste umană caldă. Happiness nu oferă rețete facile pentru fericire, ci o explorare a modului în care interconectarea și empatia ne pot ancora în fața pierderii. Este un roman esențial pentru cei care vor să înțeleagă dinamica orașului modern prin ochii celor care îl mențin în funcțiune, dar rămân adesea neobservați.

Despre autor

Aminatta Forna, distinsă cu Ordinul Imperiului Britanic pentru servicii aduse literaturii, este o voce proeminentă a ficțiunii contemporane, fiind născută în Scoția și crescută în Sierra Leone. Recunoscută internațional pentru romanul The Memory of Love, care i-a adus premiul Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Forna explorează în mod constant temele memoriei, traumei și urmărilor conflictelor politice. Profesor de scriere creativă și membru al Royal Society of Literature, ea reușește să aducă în Happiness o perspectivă globală, ancorată în experiențe multiculturale și într-o documentare riguroasă asupra psihicului uman.

Descriere

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'Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary ... A thing of lasting beauty' ObserverWaterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends, his 'niece', Ama, who hasn't called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown - and now her young son Tano is missing. When, by chance, Attila bumps into Jean again, she joins him in his search for Tano, mobilizing into action the network she has built up, mainly from the many West African immigrants working London's myriad streets, of volunteer fox-spotters: security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens. All unite to help and as the search continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds.In this delicate yet powerful novel of loves lost and new, of past griefs and of the hidden side of a teeming metropolis, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the values of the society we live in, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures - and the true nature of happiness.

Recenzii

Piercingly intelligent and interrogative . Registers tectonic shifts taking place in the world and provokes us to think anew about war, and what we take for peace and happiness
An unusual novel that wears its cleverness lightly; tender, but with an eyes-wide-open recognition that the world is harsh
Forna is a risk-taker, a writer who doesn't hold back from tackling big themes . Happiness is one of a handful of contemporary novels that take both the human condition and the animal condition seriously. Entering Forna's sweeping universe transports you to a place that feels familiar, but also totally feral and full of surprises
Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary, her sympathetic portrayal of traffic wardens, street performers, security guards, hotel doormen a thing of lasting beauty. It is as if the author has privileged access into multiple spheres of existence, learning the secret languages of each, conferring dignity and consequence on these figures who often pass unseen and unrecorded in our accounts of contemporary life
Forna's writing exudes an excitable kind of curiosity - about people, about the world. She has a magpie eye for interesting facts and observations . She has a big heart and impressive breadth, writing with equal acuity and empathy about women and men, Americans and Africans, professors and traffic wardens ... There is so much to enjoy in this book
Aminatta Forna expertly weaves her characters' stories, past and present, in and out of the larger story of London, which becomes as rich a character as the human beings and, indeed, the foxes; and she makes us care deeply about them all, the foxes, the people and the city. A terrific novel
One of the best novels I've read in quite a while - intelligent, deep and poignant. It sheds smooth, unflinching light upon the unseen. Forna is at the top of her game
Both generous in spirit and thought-provoking
She has a deft touch and a warm style . Happiness is full of elegantly-written passages that you will want to revisit to make sense of changing circumstances in an increasingly tumultuous world
From the understated and inexorable pull of plot and emotion to the luxuriousness of the details of varied ways of living and being to the tidal pull of language, Happiness is a great accomplishment
Powerfully affecting
A deeply moving novel about love, trauma and the ties that bind us together. Beautifully written and ingeniously allegorical. Aminatta Forna is a writer of phenomenal talent, with a clear eye, a fearless voice, and an extraordinary range
Her prose quietly grips us by the throat and then tightens its hold. It is storytelling at its most taut . A gifted writer
- The best writer of fiction in this field . The intelligence of Forna's storytelling is testament to a woman who has deep emotional resources
A fresh, immaculate stylist and an unsparing chronicler of human vices . Profound
- Thebest writer of fictionin this field . Theintelligenceof Forna's storytelling is testament to a woman who has deep emotional resources

Caracteristici

Forna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. She has judged a number of literary awards

Notă biografică

Aminatta Forna is the author of Ancestor Stones, The Hired Man and The Memory of Love, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water was a Samuel Johnson Prize finalist. Forna lives in London and Virginia. aminattaforna.com / @aminattaforna

Descriere scurtă

"Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation with a sublimely delicate touch."--Washington Post
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection.
Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of friends, his "niece" who hasn't called home in a while. Ama has been swept up in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing.
When, by chance, Attila runs into Jean again, she mobilizes the network of rubbish men she uses as volunteer fox spotters. Security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens--mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of London--come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds.
Meanwhile a consulting case causes Attila to question the impact of his own ideas on trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.