The Survival Game
Autor Nicky Singeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iul 2018 – vârsta până la 15 ani
Ca și After Tomorrow de Gillian Cross, acest roman reușește să educe și să provoace o reflecție profundă asupra condiției de refugiat fără a fi didactic, transformând o criză globală într-o experiență profund personală. Găsim în The Survival Game o poveste despre maturizare forțată, plasată într-un viitor în care resursele sunt epuizate, iar granițele au devenit bariere aproape insurmontabile. Protagonista noastră, Mhairi Bain, este o adolescentă de 14 ani a cărei singură prioritate este supraviețuirea, până când întâlnirea cu un copil vulnerabil îi testează umanitatea.
Putem afirma că stilul autoarei Nicky Singer a evoluat natural de la temele din Feather Boy. Dacă în lucrarea anterioară accentul cădea pe depășirea temerilor interioare și a bullying-ului școlar, aici miza este mutată într-un context societal urgent: încălzirea globală și migrația. The Survival Game se aseamănă cu Fish de L.S. MATTHEWS prin modul în care prezintă călătoria anevoioasă spre siguranță, însă Nicky Singer adaugă o tensiune psihologică acută, specifică literaturii distopice pentru tineri.
Merită menționat că, deși cadrul este unul sumbru, tonul rămâne unul plin de speranță. Ritmul narațiunii este susținut de pericolele de la fiecare punct de control, dar adevărata forță a cărții rezidă în transformarea interioară a lui Mhairi. Este o lectură despre reconstruirea identității într-o lume fragmentată, unde compasiunea devine cel mai curajos act de rebeliune.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1444944525
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Hachette Children's Group
Colecția Hodder Children's Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
Mhairi Anne Bain owns only two things: a gun with no bullets and her identity papers.
The world is a shell of what it once was. Now, you must prove yourself worthy of existence at every turn, at every border checkpoint. And if you are going to survive, your instincts will become your most valuable weapon.
Mhairi has learnt the importance of living her own story, of speaking to no one. But then she meets a young boy with no voice at all, and finds herself risking everything to take him to safety.
And so Mhairi and the silent boy travel the road north. But there are rumours that things in Scotland have changed since she has been away. What Mhairi finds there is shocking and heart-breaking, but might finally re-connect her to her sense of self and to the possibility of love.
Recenzii
Set in an another bleak, all-too-imaginable near future, Nicky Singer's The Survival Game (Hodder) follows 14-year-old Mhairi as she returns to her birthplace on the Isle of Arran, with an empty gun, her identity papers and a mute five-year-old in tow. In a world of hard borders, coldly allocated resources, truncated lifespans and judicial murder, traumatic loss has already robbed Mhairi of much of her humanity - has she enough left to keep her soul alive? Singer's bitter, demanding book is shot through with piercingly bright, unforgettable images.
Nicky Singer pulls no punches in this hard, harrowing, skillful story, which shows how thin the facade of civilization is and how easy it is to brutalize not only a person but an entire society. There is hope - at its heart, Mhairi's tale is that of a human being, desensitized by necessity, learning to connect once more.
Teenage readers will find much to savour in Nicky Singer's Survival Game (Hachette) Set in a not-so-distant future, the heroine's troubles and dangerous journey is strangely relevant. With lyrical prose and a political heartbeat, this is essential reading for fans of dystopian literature
A particularly pertinent read. Singer's provocative book poses big ethical questions and has an endling likely to polarise readers
'A powerful story. It's searingly beautiful but both terrifying and deeply sad. Nicky Singer writes with lyricism...But The Survival Game isn't just beautifully written...it's raw and energetic, lyrical and beautiful, intense and passionate. It also asks important questions and requires the reader to interrogate her or himself...It's an absolute tour de force.'
A wonderful, surprisingly delicate story about a teenager making her way home to Scotland in a world remade by climate change (aimed at YA readers but, like all good children's books, good for adults too)
A haunting novel, beautifully written that will stay with you long after the last page
extraordinary novel
Recent news about the treatment of refugee children makes this a particularly pertinent read. Singer's gripping and provocative book poses big ethical questions, and has an ending likely to polarise readers.
In this gripping near-future story, Nicky Singer tackles two urgent contemporary issues - global warming and mass migration. Desperate people are moving north, and Scotland is the new destination of dreams. Resilient 14-year-old Mhairi Bain is on her way to the Isle of Arran where her grandmother lives. Travelling alone, she has witnessed horrors that include the deaths of both parents. Tough but not heartless, she has taken pity on a mute African boy on the way.
The chapters are short and tense, written in a boiled-down style. As a way of dealing with her trauma, Mhairi has created 'Castle', a mental fortress in which to conceal bad memories. It's a neat narrative device. The pair face many obstacles, dangers and border crossings, dramatizing the plight of the migrant in a world, compellingly evoked here, that is both oddly familiar and yet horrifyingly changed.