The Carer: 'A cracking, crackling social comedy' The Times
Autor Deborah Moggachen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2020
Lectura romanului The Carer în limba engleză ne oferă acces direct la nuanțele subtile ale umorului britanic și la acea „blistering truth” pe care traducerea ar putea, uneori, să o îmblânzească excesiv. În original, vocea lui Deborah Moggach păstrează o asprime binefăcătoare, transformând o situație domestică banală într-o radiografie tăioasă a responsabilităților filiale. Reținem aici povestea lui James, un tată care are nevoie de asistență permanentă, și a copiilor săi, Phoebe și Robert, a căror ușurare inițială la venirea îngrijitoarei Mandy se transformă treptat în suspiciune și gelozie.
Subliniem faptul că, în tradiția explorărilor despre vulnerabilitatea vârstei a treia, precum Live a Little de Howard Jacobson, acest roman continuă să disece raportul dintre memorie și identitate, dar adaugă o notă de comedie socială mult mai pronunțată. Dacă Jacobson se concentrează pe dragostea la senectute, Moggach alege să privească spre „firele dureroase care leagă familiile”, așa cum a făcut-o și în volumele sale anterioare. Față de The Black Dress, unde autoarea explora singurătatea cu un cinism mușcător, în The Carer tonul este mai cald, deși la fel de pătrunzător.
Structura narativă este una de acumulare, unde vizitele la centrele de grădinărit și micile bucurii cotidiene ale lui James construiesc o tensiune mută. Merită menționat că Moggach nu se mulțumește cu o cronică de familie; ea introduce un element de imprevizibilitate care forțează cititorul să reevalueze tot ce știa despre trecutul protagonistului. Este o experiență de lectură care alternează între zâmbetul ironic și o melancolie profundă, specifică stilului consacrat al autoarei.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 147226049X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Tinder Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm The Carer celor care caută o beletristică inteligentă, ce refuză să trateze bătrânețea în termeni pur tragici. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra dilemelor morale ale „generației sandviș” — adulții care îngrijesc simultan copii și părinți. Este o carte despre secrete de familie și despre modul în care un străin poate deveni oglinda în care ne vedem cel mai clar propriile eșecuri afective.
Despre autor
Deborah Moggach, distinsă cu OBE, este o romancieră și scenaristă britanică de succes, celebră pentru capacitatea sa de a surprinde complexitatea relațiilor umane. Cu peste douăzeci de romane la activ, ea a devenit un nume de referință după succesul ecranizării cărții sale „These Foolish Things”, cunoscută publicului larg sub titlul „The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”. Locuiește în Londra și este recunoscută pentru stilul său care îmbină observația socială fină cu un umor adesea comparat cu cel al Norei Ephron, explorând teme precum fidelitatea, moștenirea și redefinirea sinelui la orice vârstă.
Descriere
An unforgettable novel about age, caring and with a twist you won't see coming...
'A cracking, crackling social comedy, with some brilliant observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist' The Times
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a deliciously funny, poignant and wry novel, full of surprising twists and turns:
James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss.
Then something extraordinary happens which throws everything into new relief, changing all the stories of their childhood - and the father - that they thought they knew so well.
'A world full of charm, warmth and pitch-perfect humour...punctuated by Moggach's blistering truths about the sorrowful threads that bind families together' Sunday Express
'Joyous' Daily Mail
What readers say about THE CARER:
'Comedy and reality and some delicious writing - what a pleasure!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'What a wonderful story; full of so many unusual twists and turns whilst still being wholly believable' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Beautifully written. You think you know where this is going? Well, you're completely wrong! Certainly worthy of five stars for writing, content, and how much I enjoyed reading this book' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Moggach's characterisations are, as ever, superb' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Recenzii
Moggach is at the height of her powers with this book, which moves from a beautifully observed comedy of middle-class life to an immensely moving celebration of two imperfect marriages
A cracking, crackling social comedy with some brilliant people observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist
Moggach's latest is full of warmth and humour as well as blistering truths about the sorrowful threads that bind families
This is a world full of charm, warmth and pitch-perfect humour, but it is also a world punctuated by Moggach's blistering truths on the tangled, sorrowful threads of resentment and disappointment that bind families together
Infuses the subject with her trademark humour and pathos, reshaping a societal dilemma into a family drama, by turns compelling and surprising - her nuanced characterisations make the subject matter really come alive
Moggach addresses an all too common nightmare with ruthless honesty and sublime wit - The Carer is one of the funniest novels I have read for ages
If you enjoyed THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, there's a chance you'll love the author's new novel even more. A heartwarming triumph
Wickedly, witty entertainment. Moggach is so very good at describing the ordinary, she transforms it into the unusual, shocking and fascinating. Behind the normality of people's lives there often lies an extraordinary story. It's this that Moggach tells with insight, acute observation of character and mordant humour. The Carer is an immediately relevant work, a fiction anchored in reality
Surprising, funny and certain to have more than one reader wincing in recognition
I love her book - and this one especially. It's marvellous
This joyous novel ... a sustained satire on smug middle-class mores, like a deranged Archers omnibus. Can there be higher praise?
A sharp, witty, characteristically generous and gallopingly readable novel
A witty tale, with beautifully drawn characters
Moving and funny
Good, rollicking, and occasionally, what with the file of evasions, duplicity and fractured emotion, wounding and reflective stuff
I just loved it - so touching and wise and funny, full of all the lovely touches that Debby is so good at. She draws characters so deftly; you begin to think you know them from the smallest of observations. They're all so human!
The Carer will ring bells for any reader with parents reaching the grab-rail stage of life but proves as touching as it's funny. Moggach writes in the best funny-ouch tradition, her humour always rooted in acute observation of our frailties and appetites
Deborah Moggach's warm heart and cool eye for hilarious British idiosyncrasies are both on top form here - I laughed like a drain. Specially at the hippy Lothario in the wet Welsh woods
Beautifully written, oozing interesting characters that you genuinely care about
Lit up a dull day with its warmth and wit
The most endearing of humorists, Deborah Moggach casts a penetrating eye on our foibles and fantasies. Neither ageing, nor death - as The Carer so beautifully demonstrates - can resist her comic scrutiny
A wry, witty and wise novel, full of insight and understanding'
'A wonderful comedy of middle-class life' Sunday Times
James - The Nutty Professor. His colleagues had loved him. His students had loved him, everybody had loved him. Now he's getting on a bit and needs full-time help.
Phoebe - His daughter. Distracted, a single woman of a certain age, an artist and child-free. Busy, busy, busy.
Robert - His son. A writer who sits in his shed, thinking about women, primarily his wife, and whether she loves him or not.
Mandy - The Carer. Never been married. No children. Little is known about Mandy. But she's arrived with her teapot and Marigold gloves to help them all. A godsend. A blessing. Or is she?
'Full of charm, warmth and pitch-perfect humour' Sunday Express
'Wickedly witty' Spectator
'Compelling and surprising' Observer