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Run Me to Earth

Autor Paul Yoon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 ian 2020

Simțim, încă de la primele pagini ale romanului Run Me to Earth, o liniște fragilă care precede dezastrul. Paul Yoon nu alege calea spectacolului sângeros, ci preferă o abordare contemplativă, aproape picturală, a supraviețuirii. Într-un Laos al anilor '60, transformat într-un „ocean de bombe”, îi descoperim pe Alisak, Prany și Noi — trei adolescenți care navighează printre minele neexplodate pe motociclete, sub un cer care amenință constant. Este o existență definită de urgența medicală și de solidaritatea pură născută în spitale de campanie improvizate. La intersecția dintre Wandering Souls de Cecile Pin și The Surrendered de Chang-Rae Lee, această operă combină brutalitatea istoriei cu o delicatețe stilistică rară, explorând modul în care trauma exilului reconfigurează identitatea umană pe parcursul mai multor decenii. Observăm aici aceeași economie de mijloace și atenție pentru detaliul semnificativ pe care autorul le-a etalat în Snow Hunters, însă Run Me to Earth extinde cadrul narativ, purtându-ne din Asia până în Europa și America. Ritmul este așezat, lăsând spațiu cititorului să respire între momentele de o intensitate emoțională devastatoare. Nu este doar o cronică a războiului, ci o meditație despre cum ne „ancorăm” în lume după ce tot ce am cunoscut a fost distrus. Yoon scrie cu o precizie chirurgicală despre speranță și har, demonstrând că, deși drumurile orfanilor se despart fizic, legăturile lor rămân înscrise în însăși fibra modului în care aleg să își continue viața.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501154041
ISBN-10: 1501154044
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 139 x 187 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Scribner

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o literatură de o frumusețe melancolică, similară prozei lui Ocean Vuong. Cititorul va descoperi o perspectivă mai puțin explorată asupra istoriei asiatice, marcată de „războiul secret” din Laos. Este o lectură despre reziliență care nu oferă soluții facile, ci un portret onest al modului în care memoria și prietenia supraviețuiesc în condiții extreme, totul într-un stil literar impecabil.


Despre autor

Paul Yoon s-a născut în New York și s-a impus rapid ca una dintre cele mai rafinate voci ale literaturii contemporane americane. Debutul său, volumul de povestiri „Once the Shore”, a fost distins cu premiul 5 under 35 de către National Book Foundation. În lucrările sale, precum Snow Hunters sau recentul volum The Hive and the Honey, Yoon explorează constant temele dezrădăcinării, ale identității și ale modului în care culturile se ciocnesc și se întrepătrund de-a lungul secolelor. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al unui bijutier, datorită migalei și preciziei cu care își construiește frazele.


Notă biografică

Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Descriere scurtă

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”

Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky.

In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world.

Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.

“If you truly believe in the transformative power of literature then you must read this book. Run Me to Earth is a genuine masterpiece; fierce, tender, wise, earth-shattering, pulsating with love and hope.”—MIRIAM TOEWS, author of Women Talking 

“With Run Me to Earth, Paul Yoon proves, yet again, that he is a master at finding depth of emotion in formal restraint and discovering the timeless core in the most urgent issues of our day. This is one of those rare novels that stays with us to become, over the years, a standard with which we measure other books.”—HERNAN DIAZ, author of In the Distance, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Recenzii

‘Haunting . . . Run Me to Earth is a beautiful, understated novel which jumps backwards and forwards in time and perspective. Told by a range of narrators, some of whom stand at a slight angle to the main characters, it has a fractured, abstracted feel which mirrors the dissociation caused by early trauma . . . His writing may be restrained, but it is not lacking in lyricism or insight’ 
‘Yoon’s style is spare and subtle; some of his most powerful descriptions are of absences . . . There is no melodrama here, despite the intensity of the trauma . . . a humane corrective to those murderous abstractions’
'Richly layered . . . Throughout the novel, beauty and vio­lence coexist in a universe that seems by turns cruel and won­drous. . . .Yoon has stitched an intense meditation on the devas­tating nature of war and displacement'
'Spellbinding . . . With his panoramic vision of the displacements of war, Yoon reminds us of the people never considered or ac­counted for in the halls of power'
'Yoon’s greatest skill lies in crafting subtle moments that un­derline the strange and specific sadness inherent to trauma . . . As children around the world continue to grow up surrounded by violence and war, authors like Yoon seek to understand how experiencing those horrors shapes the adults they eventually be­come. And in Run Me to Earth, those horrors are scattered like unexploded bombs, waiting to go off at any time'
'If you truly believe in the transformative power of literature then you must read this book. Run Me to Earth is a genuine mas­terpiece: fierce, tender, wise, earth-shattering, pulsating with love and hope'
'With Run Me to Earth, Paul Yoon proves, yet again, that he is a master at finding depth of emotion in formal restraint and dis­covering the timeless core in the most urgent issues of our day. This is one of those rare novels that stays with us to become, over the years, a standard with which we measure other books'
'[A] gorgeous book about the bonds of friendship and the ruptures of war. Even more significantly, in telling the sto­ries of a trio of Laotian teens, it inverts and reorients the American war story . . . Yoon is a master of subtle storytell­ing often leaving powerful emotions unexpressed, violent acts undetailed'
'Engrossing and luminous . . . Yoon crafts an exceptionally human and poignant story'
'This story of three Laotian orphans making their way through their war-torn world in the 1960s asks important questions about what it means to feel safe, and to call a place home'
'Yoon again exemplifies his unparalleled ability to create a qui­etly spectacular narrative that reveals the unfathomable worst and unwavering best of humanity; the result here provides mes­merizing gratification'
'In another life, Yoon (The Mountain, 2017, etc.) might have been a sculptor, carving the excess off his creations until they’re perfect. In this decades-spanning examination of the survival of three orphans with the bad luck to have been born into the ruins of a battlefield, he’s stretching his abilities while still writing with deliberate, almost vigilant care . . . Yoon’s imaginative prose and affection for his characters make the story larger than a look at the ways people survive . . . Another masterpiece in miniature about the unpredictable directions a life can take'
'Yoon displays uncanny range, imagination, and originality'
'[A] sparely written gem . . . Yoon masterfully weaves their divergent story lines, unveiling the different trajectories of their lives. . . . [A] finely wrought tale about courage and endurance'