Our Missing Hearts: ‘Will break your heart and fire up your courage’ Mail on Sunday
Autor Celeste Ngen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2023
Descoperim în Our Missing Hearts o voce narativă care se simte ca o șoaptă într-o cameră plină de ecouri, purtând greutatea unei tăceri autoimuse. Celeste Ng construiește o distopie palpabilă, unde teroarea nu vine din spectacol, ci din banalitatea legilor care fragmentează familiile în numele stabilității economice. Structura romanului urmărește maturizarea forțată a lui Bird Gardner, un copil care învață să-și renege propria mamă pentru a supraviețui într-o Americă obsedată de conformitate. Stilul este unul contemplativ, împletind legendele populare povestite în copilărie cu realitatea dură a unei rețele clandestine de bibliotecari care devin gardienii memoriei colective.
Putem observa forța narativă a lui Lisa Ko din The Leavers combinată cu sensibilitatea poetică a lui Celeste Ng — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai ancorat în dimensiunea politică a maternității. Spre deosebire de dinamica suburbană din Little Fires Everywhere sau de secretele domestice din Everything I Never Told You, acest nou volum extinde lentila autoarei către mecanismele statale de opresiune. Dacă în lucrările anterioare conflictele erau centrate pe identitate și apartenență în micro-comunități, Our Missing Hearts ridică miza, explorând cum arta și poezia pot deveni acte de sfidare într-o lume care încearcă să le șteargă. Este o poveste despre moștenirile pe care le lăsăm copiilor noștri și despre curajul de a păstra inima intactă într-un sistem care cere dezumanizare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349145164
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză contemporană profundă despre legătura indestructibilă dintre mamă și fiu. Veți descoperi o analiză emoționantă a modului în care frica poate transforma o societate, dar și un omagiu adus puterii literaturii de a genera schimbare. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care au apreciat temele legate de identitate și justiție socială din The Leavers.
Despre autor
Celeste Ng a crescut în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania și Shaker Heights, Ohio, medii care i-au influențat profund temele literare legate de suburbiile americane și dinamica rasială. A studiat la Universitatea Harvard și a obținut un master în arte frumoase la Universitatea din Michigan. Este autoarea bestsellerurilor Everything I Never Told You și Little Fires Everywhere, lucrări traduse în peste treizeci de limbi. În prezent, locuiește în Cambridge, Massachusetts, fiind laureată a burselor oferite de National Endowment of the Arts și Fundația Guggenheim. Stilul său se remarcă prin explorarea meticuloasă a relațiilor de familie sub presiunea normelor sociale.
Descriere
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Recenzii
A lyrical and touching testimony to maternal love, it's also a salutary reminder of how easily freedoms can be lost and of the power of words to change lives
One of the biggest books of the year...deeply moving
Beautifully stirring and heart-wrenching, this powerful novel from the author of Little Fires Everywhere is a homage to love and will tug at your heartstrings
A beautiful, thoughtful book...Brilliant and moving
Ng's compelling writing paints a picture of a world so real you can almost touch it. Despite the darkness of the story, the love of a family stands out.
[A] feat of meaty storytelling...Ng effortlessly combines a character-led family story with a detective tale, a tribute to books and storytelling and a confrontation with history...a story that is exceptionally powerful and scaldingly relevant
Remarkable and deeply moving... as moving as it is gripping. [Ng] is an astute writer...her writing feels gorgeously supple
Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching...I was so invested in the future of this mother and son, and I can't wait to hear what you think of this deeply suspenseful story!
On another level, Our Missing Hearts is a meditation on the sometimes accidental power of words... I won't give away the splendid conclusion of Ng's book; suffice it to say the climax deals with the power of words, the power of stories and the persistence of memory. It's impossible not to be moved by Margaret Miu's courage, or to applaud her craftiness
Powerful and brilliant
Thought-provoking... My heart broke and was remade several times over by this book
Ng, whose previous novels subtly probed tensions surrounding race,class, and gender, boldly tackles
anti-Asian racism head-on
Shot through with vivid color and rising hope, an unflinching yet life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back in dangerous times...Ng's brilliance lies in leaving the reader with an unshakable belief that against all odds, people will find the courage to resist, revolt, and defend . . . remarkable
[Ng] has really hit her authorial stride in her eagerly anticipated third novel, Our Missing Hearts... It's her masterful weaving huge themes of race, class, privilege and identity with the simplicity of everyday lives that has made her a deserved international phenomenon
Ng's third novel is eagerly awaited and does not disappoint...Our Missing Hearts deftly weaves together a coming-of-age story with a threatening vision of a heavily censored future
Little Fires Everywhere became a global phenomenon and now author Celeste Ng is back with another gripping tale
Tense, poignant and chilling
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic - including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Notă biografică
Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.