Harmless Like You
Autor Rowan Hisayo Buchananen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2016
La o primă vedere, Harmless Like You ar putea părea o cronică familiară a abandonului matern, însă cititorul descoperă rapid o meditație profundă și viscerală despre costul creativității și greutatea moștenirii culturale. Considerăm că forța acestui debut constă în modul în care Rowan Hisayo Buchanan refuză soluțiile facile, construind o punte fragilă între New York-ul anilor '60 și prezentul marcat de căutări identitare din Berlin sau Connecticut. Narațiunea pendulează între Yuki Oyama, o tânără japoneză care încearcă să-și găsească vocea ca artistă într-o lume străină, și fiul ei, Jay, care la maturitate este nevoit să dea chip absenței care i-a definit existența.
Subliniem sensibilitatea cu care autoarea pictează izolarea; proza sa este „picturală”, amintind de atenția pentru detaliu și atmosfera din Starling Days sau The Sleep Watcher. Dacă în lucrările sale ulterioare Buchanan explorează fragilitatea psihologică și tensiunile domestice, aici se concentrează pe intersecția dintre ambiția artistică și datoria maternă. Stilul este unul măsurat, aproape calm, dar străpuns de momente de o onestitate brutală. Observăm în această operă forța narativă a lui Emily Itami din Fault Lines combinată cu sensibilitatea melancolică a lui Jessica Au din Cold Enough for Snow — dar cu un glas propriu, marcat de o perspectivă multiculturală unică.
Este un roman despre ce înseamnă să fii un „outsider” nu doar într-o țară străină, ci și în propria familie. Ritmul este deliberat, permițând personajelor să respire și cititorului să pătrundă în straturile complexe ale memoriei și reconcilierii. Harmless Like You nu este doar o poveste despre artă, ci un studiu despre cum ne modelăm identitatea în absența celor care ar fi trebuit să ne definească.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147363833X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 215 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
Written in startlingly beautiful prose, HARMLESS LIKE YOU is set across New York, Berlin and Connecticut, following the stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old.
HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an unforgettable novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships and familial bonds, offering a unique exploration of love, loneliness and reconciliation.
Recenzii
This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration.
Elegant, accomplished debut... Although this is a dark novel, it is also as rich and vivid as the chapter headings' descriptions of paint colours
Lyrical and endearing
This beautiful novel explores creativity and the complicated relationships between parents and children.
This elegant and moving novel burns slowly, building in intensity as it develops to explore the subjects of identity, alienation and desire.
Harmless Like You is a refreshing, bold book about understatement.
It's pretty rare that a book takes my breath away. But I guarantee Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's beautiful debut, Harmless Like You, will do just that . . will leave your heart hurting.
Combines a wry, sardonic voice with an assured knack for comic set-pieces.
Stylishly written . . . exceptional
Sublime - calm, profound, beautifully controlled and with startling splashes of colour.
Buchanan's prose is visceral, startling and mind-bendingly gorgeous. . . .worth reading for the beauty and originality of the prose, for the questions Buchanan raises about art and heritage, and for the characters who are sometimes as maddening as they can be magnificent.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's debut is a beautifully textured novel. . . Yuki's story feels compellingly immediate, as prickly and unpredictable as its protagonist.
A serious, sad and beautifully written debut.
What a beautiful book. So measured and confident for a debut - really impressive stuff. The fine brushwork of a meticulous student of the human condition, set within the rich, widescreen drama of a bold and visionary storyteller. It's like staring at a stone at the bottom of a very clear, but slowly shifting, lake. An enchanting and deftly layered exploration of desire, self-identity and belonging.
Impressive debut . . . sensitively explores loneliness and the desire to belong against the need for freedom, both personal and artistic.
A well written, unique and engrossing debut novel . . . a great achievement
This is a book I've been waiting for since before its author was born. And yet I could never have predicted it. It is a book about beauty and belonging, suffering and being lost, a book that takes into account history, the implications of separation and disorientation. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan cleaves to her idiosyncrasies, foregoing whitewash in favor of her ownglittering vision. She is "the seer, not the seen." The result is a gift-unassuming, elegant, vividly prismatic. Not since Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on the Breath of God has a book shone such a moving light on multiracial, interracial, and transnational relationships. Regardless of your flesh tone, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's study of color-its history, its strangeness, its allure, and its consequences - will dazzle you.
HARMLESS LIKE YOU is the story of a mother and her son, but it is too an ode to the outsider, a Japanese-American artist who must also create her own, unprecedented identity in 1960s New York. Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, from the Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan's debut explores the thin line between attachment and abandonment, love and pain, selfishness and sacrifice. With kaleidoscopic prose and characters all too human, HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an unforgettable debut, as rich in darkness and light as it is in color.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's passionate, gorgeously-written debut novel investigates harmlessness and harm, power and vulnerability, free will and fate.
With luminous prose, unflinching honesty, and compelling narrative drive . . . HARMLESS LIKE YOU is a stunning debut that reads like the work of a seasoned novelist.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means to be an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture.
'What a beautiful book. So measured and confident for a debut. An enchanting and deftly layered exploration of desire, self-identity and belonging.'
EMMA JANE UNSWORTH, author of Animals
'Sublime - calm, profound, beautifully controlled and with startling splashes of colour. '
CHRIS CLEAVE, author of The Other Hand
HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an ode to the outsider. Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, from the Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan's debut explores the thin line between attachment and abandonment, love and pain, selfishness and sacrifice. An unforgettable debut, as rich in darkness and light as it is in colour.
CHLOE BENJAMIN, author of The Anatomy of Dreams
When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.
Yet sometimes being alone feels like the easiest choice to make.
In 1968 Yuki is 16 and has not one friend in all of New York.
It's the year her parents move back to Tokyo, but Yuki decides to stay.
As she sketches out her new life, it is also the year she'll fall in love with a shade of orange, climb out a window, meets an aspiring model, and run tangle-haired through the night.
In 2016 gallery owner Jay becomes a father, believing he is a happily married man.
It's the year he will finally confront his mother, who abandoned their family when he was two years old.
Her name is Yuki Oyama and she has been living for decades as an artist in Berlin.
Written with startling beauty and power, HARMLESS LIKE YOU explores the complexities of identity and art and captures, over decades and cities, a fractured family narrative of love, loneliness and reconciliation.