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Sarah Thornhill de Kate Grenville

Sarah Thornhill

Autor Kate Grenville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2013

Găsim în proza lui Kate Grenville o textură rară, unde simplitatea limbajului maschează o profunzime emoțională copleșitoare. În Sarah Thornhill, stilul este dictat de vocea personajului eponim: o tânără care nu știe să scrie sau să citească, dar care posedă o claritate morală și o onestitate revigorantă. Această alegere stilistică conferă narațiunii un ritm alert, aproape oral, care transformă istoria dură a colonizării Australiei într-o experiență personală, intimă. Notăm cu interes cum autoarea reușește să evite capcanele limbajului arhaic dens, preferând în schimb o proză vie, care pulsează de vitalitate și curaj.

Romanul încheie magistral trilogia care a început cu celebrul The Secret River. Dacă în primele volume accentul cădea pe supraviețuire și pe violența frontierelor, aici asistăm la ecoul acelor fapte în viața noii generații. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Only Killers and Thieves de Paul Howarth, prin explorarea brutalității din Queensland, deși vocea feminină a lui Sarah marchează o perspectivă proprie, mult mai nuanțată asupra vinovăției și a moștenirii sângeroase. Spre deosebire de explorările anterioare ale autoarei, precum cele din The Lieutenant, unde accentul cădea pe primele contacte culturale, aici miza este memoria și refuzul de a privi înapoi al celor care au clădit averi pe suferința populației aborigene.

Sarah Thornhill funcționează ca un portret al unei femei prinse între loialitatea față de familie și adevărul care iese inevitabil la suprafață. Este o lectură despre transformarea identității într-o lume nouă, unde trecutul este o rană deschisă, iar tăcerea părinților devine o povară pentru copii.

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ISBN-13: 9780802121219
ISBN-10: 0802121217
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care apreciază saga de familie cu substrat istoric și voci narative autentice. Veți descoperi o perspectivă umană asupra istoriei Australiei, departe de manuale, concentrată pe modul în care secretele nespuse ale strămoșilor ne modelează prezentul. Este o carte despre curajul de a confrunta adevărul, chiar și atunci când acesta amenință să distrugă tot ce iubești.

Despre autor

Kate Grenville, născută în 1950, este una dintre cele mai proeminente voci ale literaturii australiene contemporane. Recunoscută internațional, a fost distinsă cu Orange Prize pentru The Idea of Perfection și cu Commonwealth Writers' Prize pentru The Secret River, acesta din urmă fiind și finalist la Man Booker Prize. Opera sa se distinge prin explorarea curajoasă a istoriei coloniale a Australiei și a complexității relațiilor umane. Lucrările sale, traduse în peste douăzeci de limbi și adaptate pentru scenă și ecran, demonstrează un angajament profund față de cercetarea istorică și redarea autentică a vocilor uitate.

Recenzii

"A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted triology . . . Grenville shies away from nothing. . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness."—The New York Times Book Review

"Laudable . . . exquisite and vibrant."—The Atlantic

"Both brilliant fiction and illuminating personal history."—The Independent

"Beautifully written . . . Can be read as a dissection of a cultural clash or an allegory for colonialism, but at heart, the novel uses fiction to search for reason within history."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Grenville’s extraordinary trilogy is a major achievement in Australian literature.”—Australian Book Review

“It is with often marvelous vividness and clarity that Grenville evokes Sarah’s world. . . . Through the eyes of this young woman, the physical and cultural strangeness of a nation still clambering into existence spring richly to life.”— The Guardian

"[An] exceptional historical novel, with mutilayered characters and a beautifully styled plot."—Publishers Weekly

"Grenville's Early Australia trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion. . . . Lovingly detailed . . . Full of fascinating characters."—Booklist

“Sarah Thornhill displays [Grenville’s] gift for creating character full blaze. . . . A great work of truth . . . What unfolds is a box of surprises, richly wrapped in language so colorful and lively, you can taste it. . . . You believe in [Sarah’s] honesty, her perceptiveness, her way of ‘reading’ others. . . . A wonderful novel.”—The Scotsman

"Beautifully written and engrossing."—The Mail on Sunday (4 stars)

"I was thrilled to find myself back beside the river I’d come to know so well in The Secret River.The power with which Kate Grenville evokes places and people is so remarkable that I could remember the smell of the air there—and it was no surprise to discover that Sarah Thornhill’s story is as gripping and illuminating as her father’s was."—Diana Athill

“[A] powerful saga of colliding histories [that] blends romance and honesty.”—The Independent (Ireland)

“A moving piece of fiction . . . Powerfully realized . . . Sarah Thornhill is the book of a writer of the first rank. . . . A haunting performance.”—The Age (Australia)

“A beguiling love story . . . The voice of illiterate Sarah is Grenville’s great triumph. . . . An imaginatively convincing recreation of history and a celebration of country tenderly and beautifully observed, but above all it is a powerful plea for due acknowledgement and remembrance of the veils of the past.”—Adelaide Advertiser

"[A] captivating tale of a woman's fight to find an identity of her own in a 'new' colony. [Grenville's] wonderful account shows how hard it can be simply to be yourself. . . . A deeply moving conclusion to a romantic but by no means sentimental story."—The Telegraph

“Revisits the fascinating, trouble territory of the history wars. . . . Grenville’s vivid fiction performs as testimony, memory, and mourning within the collective post-colonial narrative.”—The Australian

“This is a beautiful book, one that pulses with insight and compassion . . . Grenville’s descriptions are a delicate fretwork of words. . . . Not only is Sarah Thornhill gorgeously written, but the love story at its heart is as real and true as it is unexpected. This is a novel that will be treasured by generations to come. It is that rare book that manages to wholly engage both head and heart. Grenville has done a splendid job.”—The Canberra Times

"Grenville's great strength is her sensual fleshing-out of the past. . . . Her vision of our colonial history is at once compelling and fable-like, as she writes contemporary white self-knowledge back into it."—The Monthly (Australia)

“[A] beautifully crafted historical reimagining.”—New Zealand Listener

“A strong and disturbing narrative.”—Sydney Morning Herald

"[Grenville had] a gift for eminently readable narrative. . . . Touching, truthful, and beautifully written, Sarah Thornhill exposes us to sickening events in early colonial Australia that may well have happened, and should never be forgotten. A must read."—Booktrust

Notă biografică

Kate Grenville's works of fiction include The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and short listed for the Man Booker Prize, and The Idea of Perfection, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in Sydney.

Visit her website at kategrenville.com

Descriere scurtă

"A wrenching conclusion to a tough-hearted trilogy . . . Exuberant, cruel, surprising, a triumphant evocation of a period and a people filled with both courage and ugliness."--The New York Times Book Review When The Secret River--a novel about frontier violence in early Australia--appeared in 2005, it became an instant best seller and garnered publicity for its unflinching look at Australia's notorious history. It has since been published all over the world and translated into twenty languages. Grenville's next novel, The Lieutenant, continued her exploration of Australia's first settlement and again, caused controversy for its bold view of her homeland's beginnings. Sarah Thornhill brings this acclaimed trilogy to an emotionally explosive conclusion. Sarah is the youngest daughter of William Thornhill, the pioneer at the center of The Secret River. Unknown to Sarah, her father--an ex-convict from London--has built his fortune on the blood of Aboriginal people. With a fine stone house and plenty of money, Thornhill is a man who has reinvented himself. As he tells his daughter, he "never looks back," and Sarah grows up learning not to ask about the past. Instead, her eyes are on handsome Jack Langland, whom she's loved since she was a child. Their romance seems idyllic, but the ugly secret in Sarah's family is poised to ambush them both. As she did with The Secret River, Grenville once again digs into her own family history to tell a story about the past that still resonates today. Driven by the captivating voice of the illiterate Sarah--at once headstrong, sympathetic, curious, and refreshingly honest--this is an unforgettable portrait of a passionate woman caught up in a historical moment that's left an indelible mark on the present.