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The Day That Went Missing de Richard Beard

The Day That Went Missing

Autor Richard Beard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2018

Decizia de a nu mai vorbi niciodată despre acea zi a fost, probabil, cea mai grea moștenire a familiei Beard. Timp de decenii, tăcerea a acoperit evenimentul tragic care i-a schimbat cursul vieții, transformând memoria într-un teritoriu interzis. În The Day That Went Missing, găsim un Richard Beard care refuză să mai ignore absența fratelui său, alegând să se întoarcă în acel moment dramatic pentru a confrunta adevărul. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul disecă mecanismele negării, folosind o proză de o simplitate tăioasă, care reușește să transforme o traumă personală într-o investigație aproape detectivistică despre memorie și pierdere. Suntem de părere că această lucrare reprezintă un punct de cotitură în cariera lui Beard. Dacă în Lazarus Is Dead sau Acts of the Assassins el explora teme legate de moarte și renaștere prin prisma mitului sau a religiei, aici el abandonează ficțiunea pentru o vulnerabilitate brută. Narativul amintește de Missing prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă și prin efortul de a recupera o identitate pierdută sub greutatea anilor de tăcere. În timp ce alte memorii se concentrează pe vindecare, Beard se concentrează pe precizie, încercând să recupereze „ziua care a lipsit” din cronologia oficială a propriei vieți. Este o lectură despre curajul de a privi în urmă, într-un trecut pe care restul familiei a ales să-l îngroape, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care doliul nerezolvat modelează maturitatea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316445382
ISBN-10: 031644538X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută memorii oneste despre dinamica familială și impactul traumei. Cititorul va descoperi o analiză pătrunzătoare a memoriei selective, câștigând o înțelegere mai profundă a modului în care tăcerea poate afecta generații întregi. Este un motiv concret pentru a explora cum scriitura poate deveni un instrument de investigație personală și de recuperare a propriei istorii.

Despre autor

Richard Beard este un autor britanic apreciat pentru versatilitatea sa literară și profunzimea temelor abordate. În lucrările sale anterioare, precum Lazarus Is Dead și Acts of the Assassins (nominalizat la Goldsmiths Prize), a demonstrat o abilitate remarcabilă de a recontextualiza narative istorice și religioase în cadre moderne, explorând adesea limitele dintre viață și moarte. Prin The Day That Went Missing, Beard trece de la explorarea mitului la cea a realității subiective, consolidându-și reputația de scriitor capabil să abordeze subiecte dificile cu o precizie stilistică și o onestitate emoțională debordantă.

Descriere scurtă

"Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving, Richard Beard's The Day That Went Missing is a masterpiece" (Joanna Rakoff), an unflinching portrait of a family's silent grief, and the tragic death of his brother not spoken about for forty years.

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2018

On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. One moment he's there, the next he's gone.

Richard and his other brothers don't attend the funeral, and incredibly the family returns immediately to the same cottage - to complete the holiday, to carry on, in the best British tradition. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe. Their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory.

Nearly forty years later, Richard, an acclaimed novelist, is haunted by the missing piece of his childhood, the unexpressed and unacknowledged grief at his core. He doesn't even know the date of his brother's death or the name of the beach where the tragedy occurred. So he sets out on a pain-staking investigation to rebuild Nicky's life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident.

The Day That Went Missing is a transcendent story of guilt and forgiveness, of reckoning with unspeakable loss. But, above all, it is a brother's most tender act of remembrance, and a man's brave act of survival.

Notă biografică

Richard Beard's six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In the UK he has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His latest novel, Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2015. He is also the author of four books of narrative non-fiction. Formerly Director of The National Academy of Writing in London, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, and has a Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia.

Recenzii

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize

"Beard,a novelist, takes a deeper look at the worst day of his family's life, when hisyounger brother drowned during their seaside vacation; the examination is bothterribly moving and somehow life-affirming."—Boston Globe
"A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft"—Sunday Times

"A touching, painful disquisition on memory and forgetting and the tendrils that tie us to the past."—Guardian

"This haunting book is a profoundly moving study of memory, denial andgrief."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"...heartfelt,heartbreaking and heartless."—Jim Crace, The New Statesman
"Beard'sstunning memoir tells the tragic story of his family's 1978 vacation and thesubsequent 40 years he spent forgetting it.... [Beard's] beautifully writtenstory is heartbreaking and unforgettable as he struggles with the grief hechose to forget and, now, attempts to remember again."—Publisher's Weekly
"Meticulously crafted and searingly honest, Beard's narrative is at oncea story about the long and difficult road to self-forgiveness and a commentaryon the wages of British emotional repression. A quietly brooding and intensememoir of family and reckoning with the past."—Kirkus Reviews
"This is a fascinating book, the story of a child'saccidental death and how an English family dealt with it - or rather, didn'tdeal with it. Clear-eyed, very sad, funny at times and, despite the story it tells, ultimatelyuplifting in its determination to confront buried truths."—Sebastian Faulks, author of Birdsong and Where My Heart Used to Beat
"Spellbinding,terrifying, deeply moving, Richard Beard's The Day That Went Missing isa masterpiece. Fueled by Beard's dark humor and lacerating intelligence, thisferociously original memoir examines the ways in which we create mythologies tohelp us cope with unbearable tragedy. I basically stopped breathing on page oneand didn't start again until I'd reached the book's devastating conclusion."—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
"RichardBeard writes with the urgency and simplicity that attend a profoundrelationship with grief, and in his struggle to understand his brother's deathhe uses prose that rivets our attention, even as he both savors and examines awound he knows he will carry with him until the end of time."—Kate Mulgrew, actor and author of Born with Teeth

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*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother's name is Nicholas Beard. SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018`This captivating book, both heart-rending and jaw-dropping, unfolds like a detective story' Daily Mail`A memoir of real truth and heartbreaking emotional heft' Sunday Times