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Rest and Be Thankful de Emma Glass

Rest and Be Thankful

Autor Emma Glass
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mar 2020

La o primă vedere, am putea crede că avem în față un jurnal medical clasic despre sacrificiu și devotament, însă ceea ce descoperă cititorul în paginile scrise de Emma Glass este o imersiune viscerală, aproape onirică, în psihicul unei femei aflate la limita rezistenței. Rest and Be Thankful nu se mulțumește să relateze rutina dintr-o unitate de terapie intensivă pediatrică; romanul transformă coridoarele spitalului într-un câmp de luptă unde trauma și tandrețea se contopesc sub presiunea epuizării. Remarcăm modul în care autoarea folosește limbajul — precis, tăios și lipsit de sentimentalisme inutile — pentru a descrie fragilitatea extremă a pacienților săi, bebeluși ale căror trupuri sunt tratate cu o grijă ce frizează sfințenia. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Critical Care, deși perspectiva lui Emma Glass marchează o voce proprie prin infuzia de elemente de realism magic și teroare psihologică. Dacă în Peach autoarea explora trauma printr-o lentilă senzorială intensă, aici ea rafinează această abordare, proiectând oboseala cronică a Laurei sub forma unor viziuni tulburătoare și a unei siluete care dansează la periferia privirii. Credem că forța acestui roman rezidă tocmai în capacitatea de a reda ritmul ceasornicului de spital, unde fiecare secundă este o negociere cu moartea, și în întrebarea onestă pe care o ridică: cine are grijă de cei care ne îngrijesc?

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526601070
ISBN-10: 1526601079
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Circus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o proză contemporană curajoasă, ce depășește granițele ficțiunii medicale obișnuite. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă, aproape dureroasă, a costului emoțional pe care îl plătesc asistenții medicali. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege umanitatea din spatele uniformelor albe, oferind un motiv concret de reflecție asupra modului în care societatea răsplătește grija și empatia.

Despre autor

Emma Glass s-a născut în Țara Galilor în 1987 și trăiește în prezent la Londra, unde își împarte timpul între scris și profesia de asistentă medicală specializată în pediatrie. Experiența sa clinică directă infuzează scriitura cu o autenticitate rară și o atenție meticuloasă la detaliul fizic. Romanul său de debut, Peach, publicat în 2018, a fost tradus în șapte limbi și a fost nominalizat pe lista lungă a prestigiosului International Dylan Thomas Prize. Prin Rest and Be Thankful, autoarea își consolidează reputația de voce distinctă în literatura britanică contemporană, fiind lăudată de critici precum George Saunders pentru neînfricarea cu care abordează teme dificile.

Caracteristici

Extraordinary publicity opportunities: A full-time paediatric nurse, Emma Glass offers a strikingly original insight into life as a young woman working for the NHS; about the psychological cost of care, the politics and hierarchies between doctors and nurses, and the price of burnout

Notă biografică

Emma Glass was born in Wales in 1987 and is now based in London, where she writes and works as a children's nurse. Her debut novelPeachwas published by Bloomsbury in 2018, has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novelRest and Be Thankfulwill be published by Bloomsbury in 2020. @Emmas_Window

Descriere scurtă

'Gorgeously written ... It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' POPPY DELIVINGNELaura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. Laura may be burned out. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't love her any more. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, always just beyond her reach. Dark yet luminous, sensual yet chilling, ringing with strange music and laced with dread,Rest and Be Thankfulis an unforgettable novel that confirms Emma Glass as a visionary new voice.'What, Glass asks, do we expect from our caregivers, and how do we replay them for the burdens we lay on them?Rest and Be Thankfulis almost absurdly pertinent, and with its devastating close, the answers seem stark: we ask far too much, and for some there is no replenishment'Times Literary Supplement

Recenzii

Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... At its height, Glass's battlefield prose calls to mind not a hospital soap but the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a trauma-generating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day
A poetic novella by a writer who also works as a senior nurse in a major London hospital. Glass evokes the exhaustion and relentlessness of working long shifts, the pain, the bleeding and cracked skin that comes with endless hand scrubbing, and most poignantly, the grief of the bereaved, all in excruciating detail. There's a ghost story element too, which adds a lovely frisson to the proceedings
Touching ... What, Glass asks, do we expect from our caregivers, and how do we replay them for the burdens we lay on them?Rest and Be Thankfulis almost absurdly pertinent, and with its devastating close, the answers seem stark: we ask far too much, and for some there is no replenishment
The ward scenes, with their crystalline descriptions of the vertiginous business of care, exquisitely beat out the ceaseless rhythms of life on a hospital front line
Thrusts the reader into the pulse-raising fear, frenzy and relief of work in a paediatric intensive-care unit - the author's own specialism ... A battlefield atmosphere arises from Ms Glass's prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives
A sense of impending doom permeates Glass's gripping but disturbing second novel
PRAISE FORPEACH: 'The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable
Unsettling, idiosyncratic and discomforting, as well as beingmoving and utterly absorbing. A bold, memorable novel -gripping, strange and utterly singular
Peachisshocking, revealing and deals with a subject most authors would shy away from.It is uncomfortable, worthy and brave .Glass deserves recognition for her bravery regarding both the topic and style
A daring novel
A visceral work
Animmensely talentedyoung writer ...Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature
Glass's commitment to the visceral is like nothing else I've read .Peachinhabits a strange, horror-story realm of the hyperreal, and Glass's vision goes a long way towards portraying an experience that's near-impossible to articulate
A dark poetic read that is a visceral in its telling. It'san extraordinary debut that we urge you to seek out
Agenre-defying and brilliantly surrealnovella ... Barely 100 pages, and somewhere between poetry and prose, this is a book to be devoured in a single sitting.Glass is an exciting new author to know
An impressive achievement .A truly original voice for the future
Through prose that islyrical, mythic and yet wonderfully clear,Peachexpounds on themes of good versus evil, and the base nature of desire, consumption and carnality . There is a spoken word vibrancy to Glass's prose
Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid
A gutsy, discomfiting experiment
A propulsive, unforgettable read that's impossible to shake
Choose wisely the moment when you pick upPeach; because once you doyou'll be unable to put it downuntil the very last sentence
Impossible to categorise,intimately weird and exhilaratingly bold,Peachshares literary DNA with Gertrude Stein, Hubert Selby Jr, and Eimear McBride, but Emma Glass's massive talent is all her own
Ferocious, startling, all-consuming ...it has changed the way I see the world
A work of genius.So lonesome and moving, so gruesome, wry, tender and plaintive. It is the newJane Eyre, and one wild, thrilling ride. Swallow it in one gulp, and carry a spare copy in your pocket.Always

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'Gorgeously written ... It's heartbreaking but beautiful, and perfect for escaping into' FLORENCE WELCH
'Haunting yet beautifully written. I couldn't put it down. A masterpiece' POPPY DELEVINGNE

Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long shifts she cares for sick babies, carefully handling their exquisitely breakable bodies.

Laura needs a rest. When she sleeps, she dreams of drowning; when she wakes, she can't remember getting home. And there is a strange figure dancing in the corner of her vision, with a message, or a warning.

'Blends gnawing tension and surging tenderness ... Glass's battlefield prose calls to mind the literature of the trenches. This, though, is a trauma-generating war on death and despair fought for us in every city, every day' i paper

'Touching, devastating, almost absurdly pertinent ... What, Glass asks, do we expect from our caregivers, and how do we repay them for the burdens we lay on them?' Times Literary Supplement

'The ward scenes, with their crystalline descriptions of the vertiginous business of care, exquisitely beat out the ceaseless rhythms of life on a hospital front line' Metro

'Thrusts the reader into the pulse-raising fear, frenzy and relief of work in a paediatric intensive-care unit ... A battlefield atmosphere arises from Glass's prose as she recounts the time-stopping teamwork that aims to preserve tiny, fragile lives' Economist