Jakob's Colours
Autor Lindsay Hawdonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2016
Austria, 1944. Într-un peisaj dominat de teroare și de iarna care se apropie, un băiat de opt ani fuge singur prin păduri, purtând încălțări improvizate și o cutie mică de lemn. Jakob nu este doar un copil pierdut; el este un supraviețuitor al unei tragedii adesea uitate de istoria mare: Holocaustul împotriva populației rome. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Lindsay Hawdon alege să ancoreze această fugă disperată nu în ură, ci într-o formă de rezistență senzorială. Subliniem contrastul frapant dintre brutalitatea realității — sângele de pe haine, foamea, singurătatea — și universul cromatic pe care tatăl lui Jakob l-a lăsat moștenire: ocru ruginiu din ramuri de mușchi sau albul oțelit al sevei de copac.
Observăm o structură narativă ambițioasă care nu se limitează la un singur plan temporal. Romanul pendulează între Anglia anilor '20, Elveția și Austria, împletind destine care se întind pe parcursul a două războaie mondiale. Această abordare oferă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care traumele sunt transmise din generație în generație. Pe același raft cu The Boy Who Saw In Colours de Lauren Robinson, cartea se distinge prin faptul că transformă arta și culoarea nu doar într-o formă de exprimare, ci într-un instrument de navigație și supraviețuire pură. Dacă în alte scrieri similare accentul cade pe rezistența politică, aici descoperim o rezistență a spiritului prin frumos. Stilul autoarei, șlefuit în ani de scrieri de călătorie, reușește să redea natura nu ca pe un simplu decor, ci ca pe un personaj care îi vorbește lui Jakob prin vânt și umbre, oferindu-i singurele repere într-o lume care și-a pierdut busola morală.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1444797662
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 148 x 199 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, as he has been told to do. With shoes of sack cloth, still bloodstained with another's blood, a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other. He runs blindly, full of fear, empty of hope. For hope lies behind him in a green field with a tree that stands shaped like a Y.
He knows how to read the land, the sky. When to seek shelter, when not. He has grown up directing himself with the wind and the shadows. They are familiar to him. It is the loneliness that is not. He has never, until this time, been so alone.
'Don't be afraid, Jakob,' his father has told him, his voice weak and wavering. 'See the colours, my boy,' he has whispered. So he does. Rusted ochre from a mossy bough. Steely white from the sap of the youngest tree. On and on, Jakob runs.
Spanning from one world war to another, taking us across England, Switzerland and Austria, Jakob's Colours is about the painful legacies passed down from one generation to another, finding hope where there is no hope and colour where there is no colour.
Recenzii
A memorable debut ...There is a theme here that fits the complicated structure, about the stories we tell to spin hope from despair. The prose is poetic and on occasion luminously beautiful ... a powerful story.
The book's fairy tale tone, and its themes of hope and beauty are matched by Hawdon's poetic language.
As mesmerising as it is heartbreaking
A deeply involving tale, hazardous and harrowing, Hawdon has a fine eye for detail in description... [her] feel for the subject matter is instinctive ... a well realised and unquestionably admirable enterprise. ... she'll go far.
There are moments of real beauty, and the central story is as mesmerising as it is heartbreaking.
She writes with raw power. This book demands to be read.
Tackling the story of the lesser-known Gypsy Holocaust, Hawdon writes powerfully and sensitively about individuals deriving courage from what the can empathise with, during a terrible time.
Lindsay Hawdon certainly didn't pick an easy subject, but by heck it's an important one, and she's more than done it justice with this mesmerising and moving tale. A bewitchingly beautiful and utterly captivating story, which shows that hope exists even in the very darkest of places.
Lindsay Hawdon's novel will crack your heart open
It IS the best book I've ever read...
A haunting book, dealing with a little-known part of history, told in luminous and poetic prose.
A compassionate, hopeful heart beats strongly throughout this vivid work of poetic imagination as Jakob's Colours journeys across time and space to illuminate a long neglected chapter in the wider tragedy of European history.
Wonderfully written - the descriptions, the fractured timeline, the colours bleed off the page and into your soul. This is not just a great book, but a very important one.
A heartbreaking love story... Writing with passion and poetry, Lindsay Hawdon brings astonishing colour and life to an episode of unremitting darkness and despair. I honestly believe it stands comparison with D.M. Thomas's classic The White Hotel.
An impressive, heartfelt debut - a book about the power of stories to sustain us and drive us forward. It reminded me of Patrick Süskind's Perfume, but with colours in place of scents...
Jakob's Colours reduced me to tears. I loved its hypnotic, rhapsodic quality and can't shake it from my mind.
Lindsay Hawdon's writing is beautiful, her characterisation pitch perfect, her ability to terrify and sicken eclipsed only by her ability to make us smile ... it is an important book, a story that is still very relevant seventy years after its setting; this is a book that demands an audience and I can guarantee that you will not come away disappointed.
'A bewitchingly beautiful and utterly captivating story' Independent on Sunday
Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy - half Roma, half Yenish - runs, as he has been told to do. With shoes of sackcloth, still stained with another's blood, a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other. He runs blindly, full of fear, empty of hope.
'Don't be afraid, Jakob,' his father has told him. 'See the colours, my boy,' he has whispered. So he does. Rusted ochre from a mossy bough. Steely white from the sap of the youngest tree. On and on, Jakob runs.
Spanning from one world war to another, taking us across England, Switzerland and Austria, this powerful first novel is drawn from a little-known piece of history: the Porrajmos, or Gypsy Holocaust. And through it all is woven the brightness of hope, the strength of the human spirit, the colours that make life worth living.
'A memorable debut... luminously beautiful... a powerful story' The Times
'Deeply involving... [Hawdon] will go far' Guardian
'This book demands to be read' John Humphrys
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