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Here We Are de Graham Swift

Here We Are

Autor Graham Swift
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 feb 2020

Considerăm că proza lui Graham Swift posedă o calitate rară, aproape tactilă, în care precizia frazei reușește să evoce lumi întregi prin detalii aparent mărunte. În Here We Are, autorul ne transportă în Brighton-ul anului 1959, sub luminile de la malul mării, unde un trio artistic — magicianul Ronnie, asistenta sa Evie și carismaticul prezentator Jack — trăiește un sezon estival ce le va schimba definitiv destinele. Remarcăm modul în care Swift folosește metafora magiei nu doar ca decor, ci ca o lentilă prin care examinează condiția umană și iluziile pe care ni le construim.

Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Mothering Sunday, deși aici nostalgia este dublată de o tensiune specifică teatrului de varietăți, marcând o voce proprie care pendulează între strălucirea scenei și umbrele din culise. Ritmul este unul contemplativ, iar structura narativă se deplasează fluid între trecutul postbelic și prezent, urmărind undele de șoc ale unei trădări ce a mocnit sub aparența succesului. Credem că această lucrare consolidează temele explorate anterior în Last Orders sau Waterland, precum greutatea memoriei și modul în care istoria personală se împletește cu cea colectivă.

Swift nu se grăbește să dezvăluie secretele personajelor sale; el preferă să „tragă cortina” treptat, lăsând cititorul să simtă melancolia unei lumi pe cale de dispariție. Este un roman despre identitate și despre rolurile pe care le jucăm, scris cu o eleganță care confirmă statutul autorului de maestru al literaturii britanice contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781471188930
ISBN-10: 1471188930
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: SCRIBNER UK
Colecția Scribner UK

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza rafinată și studiile de personaj profunde. Here We Are oferă o incursiune fascinantă în Anglia anilor '50, capturând farmecul spectacolelor de varietăți și fragilitatea relațiilor umane. Veți câștiga o perspectivă emoționantă asupra modului în care deciziile tinereții reverberează de-a lungul întregii vieți, totul sub semnătura unui scriitor distins cu Premiul Booker.

Despre autor

Graham Swift este un renumit scriitor englez, membru al Royal Society of Literature, educat la Cambridge și York. Este o voce de referință a beletristicii britanice, fiind cunoscut pentru romane precum Waterland, nominalizat la Premiul Booker, și Last Orders, care i-a adus prestigiosul trofeu în 1996. Opera sa explorează frecvent legăturile dintre peisaj, istorie și memoria familială. Multe dintre lucrările sale au fost adaptate pentru cinema, confirmând relevanța sa culturală și capacitatea de a crea povești cu un puternic impact vizual și emoțional.

Descriere scurtă

‘A quietly, devastating, magical novel’  Daily Telegraph

'Beautiful, gentle, intricate... Here We Are smuggles within the pages of a seemingly commonplace tale depths of emotion and narrative complexity that take the breath away.' The Observer

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack – Jack Robinson, as in ‘before you can say’ – is everyone’s favourite compère, a born entertainer, holding the whole show together.
 
As the summer progresses, the off-stage drama between the three begins to overshadow their theatrical success, and events unfold which will have lasting consequences for all their futures.
 
Rich, comic, alive and subtly devastating, Here We Are is a masterly piece of literary magicianship which pulls back the curtain on the human condition.

‘With a wizardry of his own, Swift conjures up an about-to-disappear little world and turns it into something of wider resonance’ Sunday Times

‘There’s nothing extravagant or showy about Here We Are . . . The book’s power comes precisely from the fact that it performs its magic in front of your eyes, leaving nowhere to hide . . . you wonder how he does it.’ Financial Times

‘As with all his books, it’s the moments of quiet, undramatic poignancy that stay with you’ Sunday Express

'He tells simple, truthful stories about what feel like real people. Here We Are is a welcome addition to a proud legacy.' The Big Issue

The variety of voices and its historical and emotional reach are so finely entwined, it is as perfect and smooth as an egg. Passages leap out all the time, demanding to be reread, or committed to memory... It is perhaps too simple to say that Swift creates a form of fictional magic, but what he can do with a page is out of the ordinary, far beyond most mortals’ ken.' Rosemary Goring, The Herald

'Here We Are is a subtle portrait of a vanished world, with moving passages about the problems of wartime evacuees returning to impoverished London life after the wonders of the countryside.' The Independent 

Recenzii

‘With a wizardry of his own, Swift conjures up an about-to-disappear little world and turns it into something of wider resonance’ Sunday Times

‘There’s nothing extravagant or showy about Here We Are . . . The book’s power comes precisely from the fact that it performs its magic in front of your eyes, leaving nowhere to hide . . . you wonder how he does it.’ Financial Times

‘As with all his books, it’s the moments of quiet, undramatic poignancy that stay with you’ Sunday Express

'He tells simple, truthful stories about what feel like real people. Here We Are is a welcome addition to a proud legacy.' The Big Issue

The variety of voices and its historical and emotional reach are so finely entwined, it is as perfect and smooth as an egg. Passages leap out all the time, demanding to be reread, or committed to memory... It is perhaps too simple to say that Swift creates a form of fictional magic, but what he can do with a page is out of the ordinary, far beyond most mortals’ ken.' Rosemary Goring,The Herald

'Here We Are is a subtle portrait of a vanished world, with moving passages about the problems of wartime evacuees returning to impoverished London life after the wonders of the countryside.' The Independent

‘In Here We Are, Swift does not just dwell on the pivotal moments of our lives, but traces their shockwaves both forward and back. Moving seamlessly from pre-war to post, from the events of one illusory, youthful summer to the present, we are given candid access to the innermost reflections of three people who loved and betrayed each other. The end result is the stuff of life, an enduring mystery that Ronnie, Evie, Jack - that we all - must live with. I thought it was wonderful.’ Joseph Knox, author of Sirens

‘A quietly, devastating, magical novel’ Telegraph

‘We are propelled into something extraordinary…Swift’s closing account of a mundane world momentarily pierced by a shaft of numinous mystery is magnificent’ New York Times
 
‘Graham Swift has perfected a distinctive style…his beautiful new novel Here We Are…is a work of magic: neither trick nor illusion, but a flash of truth’ Wall Street Journal
 
‘Swift captures the tragicomedy of life’ Washington Post
 
‘Here We Are is a paragon of the magic of compressed narration…Once again, Swift has demonstrated wizardry in his ability to conjure magic out of ordinary lives' NPR USA
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‘“Here we are.” How easily those three small words can vanish in expected niceties—and how loaded they can be with bewilderment at the inexorable ‘‘tilt of the world’’. Graham Swift conjures them all, and more, in this short, word-perfect novel' Sydney Morning Herald
 
‘Graham Swift is the quiet master of fiction' The Age, Melbourne
 
‘An ethereal foray into the vanishing world of the magician…beautiful, breath-taking and heart-wrenching' Australian Women’s Weekly
 
‘In 2016 with his book Mothering Sunday Graham Swift reached a high plateau of storytelling art...Graham Swift‘s new novel Here We Are is on the same high plateau as Mothering Sunday' Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
 
‘The beauty of Graham Swift‘s books is that he gives you what you want without your knowing that you wanted it. How does he achieve this magical feat? It remains his secret. What a magician' Tagesspiegel, Germany
 
‘Swift is a master of the nuance and the hint, of what remains unsaid. In this respect a novel about magic and illusion seems exactly the right terrain for him...Once again he proves that he is one of the great conjurers of contemporary literature' Wiener Zeitung, Austria
 
‘Swift employs an unadorned but intense, musical prose that bathes the events described in an elusive gleam…Not for the first time Graham Swift captures the magic and mystery of ‘ordinary’ lives' Het Parool, Netherlands
 
‘The author knows, as always, how to render the human condition with a light touch… To catch the magic of life in words: an undertaking Graham Swift has mastered like no one else' De Telegraaf, Belgium
 
‘Swift doesn’t write, he whispers. His work is characterised by stories of ordinary life that, thanks to his mediation, always reveal a universal dimension…Here We Are is yet more proof of his incredible soft-voiced technique…a perfect example of Swift’s ability to touch the hidden poetry in every human being' Corriere della Sera, Italy
 
It is one of those wonderful tales that one could have read fifty years ago or discovered half a century hence with the same delight, one of those novels of timeless beauty—thanks to the art of Graham Swift, who has no equal in evoking the atmosphere of an era while probing human psychology with irony and tenderness' L’Express, France

Praise for Mothering Sunday:
'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’ Guardian

 ‘Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ Sunday Times

‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read... Swift is a writer at the very top of his game’ Evening Standard

‘Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know … It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’ Observer

Descriere

It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack - Jack Robinson, as in 'before you can say' - is everyone's favourite compere, a born entertainer, holding the whole show together.

As the summer progresses, the off-stage drama between the three begins to overshadow their theatrical success, and events unfold which will have lasting consequences for all their futures. Rich, comic, alive and subtly devastating, Here We Are is a masterly piece of literary magicianship which pulls back the curtain on the human condition. Praise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly...

Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian 'Alive with sensuousness and sensuality ... wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' Sunday Times 'From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read.

Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game' Evening Standard 'Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer