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Memorial Days de Geraldine Brooks

Memorial Days

Autor Geraldine Brooks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2025

Telefonul a sunat în ziua de Memorial Day, în 2019, dărâmând brutal universul construit de Geraldine Brooks timp de trei decenii. Tony Horwitz, partenerul ei de viață, fost corespondent de război și un om plin de vigoare, s-a prăbușit pe un trotuar din Washington D.C. la doar șaizeci de ani. Considerăm că forța acestui volum, Memorial Days, rezidă tocmai în onestitatea cu care Brooks descrie contrastul dintre viața lor așezată pe Martha’s Vineyard și hăul birocratic și emoțional care urmează unei pierderi subite. Ne este prezentată o perspectivă intimă asupra modului în care doliul nu este o etapă care trebuie „depășită”, ci un peisaj care trebuie învățat din nou.

Apreciem structura narativă care pendulează între amintirile unei iubiri profunde și izolarea autoarei într-o colibă izolată din Australia, unde s-a retras după trei ani pentru a înțelege absența. Acolo, Brooks analizează cum alte culturi, de la comunitățile indigene australiene la șiiții iranieni, integrează moartea prin ritualuri colective, spre deosebire de pragmatismul rece al lumii contemporane. Narativul amintește de The Long Goodbye de Meghan O'Rourke prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă personală și prin analiza dureroasă a modului în care semnificația propriei existențe se schimbă fundamental după pierderea cuiva drag. Dacă în lucrări precum Horse sau The Secret Chord autoarea folosea rigoarea cercetării pentru a reconstrui destine istorice, în Memorial Days ea aplică aceeași precizie observațională asupra propriei vulnerabilități, transformând biografia personală într-o meditație universală despre reziliență.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593653982
ISBN-10: 059365398X
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 149 x 217 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui traversează experiența pierderii sau dorește să înțeleagă complexitatea doliului dincolo de clișee. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care ritualul și izolarea pot ajuta la reconstrucția identității. Este un volum esențial pentru cei care au apreciat romanele lui Geraldine Brooks și vor să descopere vocea ei cea mai personală și vulnerabilă de până acum.

Despre autor

Geraldine Brooks (născută în 1955) este o jurnalistă și scriitoare australiano-americană de renume internațional, laureată a Premiului Pulitzer pentru ficțiune cu romanul March. Și-a început cariera ca reporter pentru The Wall Street Journal, acoperind crize din Orientul Mijlociu, Africa și Balcani, experiență care i-a șlefuit stilul narativ precis și empatic. Este autoarea a șase romane de succes și a două volume de non-ficțiune, printre care Foreign Correspondence. În prezent trăiește în Massachusetts, fiind una dintre cele mai apreciate voci ale literaturii contemporane, tradusă în peste 25 de limbi.

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'Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace... a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief' Los Angeles Times

'Highly recommended to those who enjoy her novels, but also to anyone who needs to remember how joy and grief can (and should) coexist' Maggie Stiefvater

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at Lambert's Cove. But all of this came to an abrupt end when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.

Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the varied ways those of other cultures grieve, such as the people of Australia's First Nations, the Balinese, and the Iranian Shiites, and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death.

A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

Recenzii

Brooks and her husband, Tony Horwitz, had been reporters in war zones, but nothing prepared her for his sudden death, at just 60, after three decades together. Four years later, she journeyed to a remote island near Tasmania "to do the unfinished work of grieving." This memoir is her report back, at once a spare accounting of tragic detail and an appreciation of the healing properties of solitude
This intimate memoir of grief is a lifeline to others dealing with loss. ... Intensely intimate and candid ... Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it's moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief

Brooks wield[s] precise and often beautiful language and, in the most graceful way possible, point[s] a way forward. A rich account of marriage and mourning ... Memorial Days contains much compassionate advice for those who have, or will, suffer the same ferocious blow
[Brooks] returned to her native Australia, to an isolated shack on tiny, sparsely populated Flinders Island to face her loss by writing this book: the story of Horwitz's accomplished life and untimely death ... the narrative of their wonderful relationship, which began when they met as students at Columbia Journalism School and could almost be a treatment for a rom-com. ... The grace Brooks offered herself with this time alone is offered to the reader all through the book; Memorial Days will surely join the other classics delivered to new widows by their literary friends
Memorial Days joins Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart as memoirs of grief worth seeking out... Memorial Days gives due justice to what it means to live and love and experience loss
Brooks closes her book with advice that, as a widow myself, I fully attest to: 'In whatever way works for you, tell your story.' It will not bring your loved one back. But as Brooks valiantly demonstrates, it will sustain you even as you endure
Highly recommended to those who enjoy her novels, but also to anyone who needs to remember how joy and grief can (and should) coexist
Beautiful. Every single page, every single word. [Memorial Days] is not merely an unflinching exploration of grief, it's a precise examination of the nitty-gritty, often infuriating work demanded of the souls left behind. ... Brooks never loses her sense of humor or remarkable ability to convey a landscape or bring people you'll never meet to life. Brooks is one of our literary treasures and Horwitz was one of our literary treasures. Read this book. Then read one of Tony's. Or, better still, take a month or two and read every single book this remarkable couple has gifted us
Absorbing...A graceful and moving meditation on bereavement
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofHorse

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.

Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death

A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.