The Chimes
Autor Anna Smaillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2016
Proza semnată de Anna Smaill în The Chimes posedă o rezonanță lirică rară, trădând formația de violonistă clasică și rigoarea de cercetător în poezie a autoarei. Remarcăm cum limbajul nu doar descrie, ci imită structurile muzicale, transformând lectura într-o experiență senzorială unde fiecare drop de ploaie și fiecare mișcare are propriul ritm. Într-o Londră distopică unde cuvintele scrise sunt proscrise, viața este orchestrată de un instrument colosal care șterge amintirile, lăsând populația într-un prezent perpetuu și amnezic.
Suntem de părere că acest roman de debut reușește să eleveze genul speculativ prin explorarea profundă a modului în care sunetul înlocuiește istoria personală. Simon, un tânăr care începe inexplicabil să-și recapete fragmente din trecut, devine vehiculul prin care explorăm teme precum libertatea și datoria morală. Cei care au parcurs Songshifting de Chris Bell vor fi pregătiți pentru această incursiune într-o lume unde muzica este atât forță de opresiune, cât și singura cale spre adevăr. Spre deosebire de explorările nebuniei și ale percepției alterate din cel de-al doilea roman al său, Bird Life, Anna Smaill se concentrează aici pe arhitectura memoriei colective.
Structura narativă este fluidă, oglindind starea de confuzie și revelație a protagonistului. Nu este doar o poveste despre supraviețuire, ci o meditație asupra a ceea ce rămâne din noi atunci când nu mai putem povesti cine am fost. The Chimes se distinge printr-o eleganță formală care justifică pe deplin recunoașterea internațională primită la premiile World Fantasy și Man Booker.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1444794507
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm The Chimes cititorilor care caută o literatură de graniță, unde distopia întâlnește poezia. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei fascinați de rolul muzicii în construcția identității umane. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care memoria ne definește realitatea, totul sub semnătura unei voci narative care stăpânește perfect ritmul și emoția.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
An Elle Book of the Year
An Independent Book of the Year
One to Watch Independent on Sunday
A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015
One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post
An Amazon Rising Star
'The Chimes is a remarkable debut. It's inventive, beautifully written, and completely absorbing. I highly recommend it.' Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds
A mind-expanding literary debut composed of memory, music and imagination.
A boy stands on the roadside on his way to London, alone in the rain.
No memories, beyond what he can hold in his hands at any given moment.
No directions, as written words have long since been forbidden.
No parents - just a melody that tugs at him, a thread to follow. A song that says if he can just get to the capital, he may find some answers about what happened to them.
The world around Simon sings, each movement a pulse of rhythm, each object weaving its own melody, music ringing in every drop of air.
Welcome to the world of The Chimes. Here, life is orchestrated by a vast musical instrument that renders people unable to form new memories. The past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphony.
But slowly, inexplicably, Simon is beginning to remember. He emerges from sleep each morning with a pricking feeling, and sense there is something he urgently has to do. In the city Simon meets Lucien, who has a gift for hearing, some secrets of his own, and a theory about the danger lurking in Simon's past.
A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthral and inspire.
Recenzii
To call The Chimes striking is I dare say to underplay what might be the most distinctive debut of the decade.
SUPERB... intriguing, ambitious and strikingly written.
The Chimes is a remarkable debut. It's inventive, beautifully written, and completely absorbing. I highly recommend it.
A genuinely originalnovel that has all the tension of a well-told, gripping thriller, but which is elevated well above the ordinary by its shining, lyrical language. The author has created a believable, consistent and vivid world...
Cleverly orchestrated and poignantly conveyed throughout.
The novel is hypnotic, melancholic and requires concentration, but it builds to an incredibly tense and emotionally satisfying climax that rewards all the effort.
Smaill is a former musician with a book of poetry already to her name. The Chimes has strong echoes of both these influences as we're taken on a strange and lyrical journey through a dystopian England . . . The intrinsic links between music and memory suffuse this dreamy narrative . . . the idiosyncratic world [that] Smaill has lovingly created using melodic and musical syntax - her narrative style brimming with invention and nuance.
The pleasure lies in getting to grips with the rules of this eerie dystopia and the unusual vocabulary Smaill has minted to describe it.
Atmospheric, intensely-imagined strangeness
Strangely compelling
A dazzling debut piece of fantasy that marries great writing with compelling narrative. And the world Smaill has invented, where memory has been replaced by music and people cling to objects that link them to their pasts, is brilliantly imagined.... a serious book with serious talent behind it.
Magical, tender, thought provoking and stunningly imaginative.
Dystopian fiction but not quite as we know it... Smaill's particular melodious inventiveness makes her story her own.
Anna Smail's ambition fiction debut is a strange, compelling tale; full of musical metaphors and striking imagery, it is wildly imaginative and challenging.
An exciting debut, a book full of rhythm, energy and melody... There's no doubt Smaill has created a distinctive and impressive debut, one that dares to create its own music.
An enthralling read.
lyrical debut
This is a story that rivets us from the beginning but, for those wanting more, there are delicious depths that change an excellent story into an equally excellent thought provoking fable. As if that isn't enough, it also convinces us that Anna is a very clever lady. ... hugely compelling ... Oh yes, this is definitely a 'Wow!' book.
For a story about music, The Chimes is a triumph on the printed page.
Cleverly orchestrated
Entrancingly poetic and engagingly plotted, this is a story that brims with heart and soul.