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These Dividing Walls: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award de Fran Cooper

These Dividing Walls: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award

Autor Fran Cooper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 feb 2018

Cât de bine ne cunoaștem, cu adevărat, vecinii care locuiesc la doar câțiva centimetri distanță, separați de ziduri subțiri? Putem afirma că These Dividing Walls nu este doar un roman despre Paris, ci o disecție a intimității forțate și a secretelor care fermentează în spații închise. Merită menționat că Fran Cooper refuză clișeele turistice, oferindu-ne în schimb o perspectivă viscerală asupra unui oraș aflat în pragul fierberii, atât la propriu, cât și la figurat. Notăm cu interes modul în care autoarea folosește canicula lunii iunie ca un catalizator pentru tensiunile sociale și psihologice ale personajelor sale. Edward, sosit aici pentru a-și vindeca doliul, devine martorul involuntar al unor vieți fragmentate: de la tânăra mamă aflată la limita rezilienței, până la bancherul a cărui cruzime discretă tulbură liniștea imobilului de la numărul 37. În acest debut remarcabil, regăsim forța narativă a lui Lucy Foley din The Paris Apartment, combinată cu sensibilitatea explorării relațiilor umane din Paris, Rue Des Martyrs — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai ancorat în realismul social. Dacă în lucrarea sa ulterioară, The Two Houses, autoarea continuă să exploreze fragilitatea psihicului uman în contexte de izolare, în acest prim roman ea reușește să transforme o clădire pariziană într-un microcosmos al întregii societăți moderne. Stilul este unul evocativ, aproape tactil, unde mirosul de praf și senzația de aer irespirabil însoțesc fiecare revelație dureroasă despre natura umană.

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ISBN-13: 9781473641563
ISBN-10: 147364156X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Pentru cititorii care preferă beletristica ce îmbină atmosfera intensă cu analiza socială. These Dividing Walls oferă o incursiune fascinantă dincolo de fațadele Haussmanniene, explorând teme precum doliul, izolarea urbană și prejudecățile. Veți câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra Parisului contemporan, departe de strălucirea turnului Eiffel, într-o poveste despre cum zidurile care ne despart sunt adesea ridicate chiar de noi înșine.

Descriere

Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . .

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD

'An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris' Woman and Home

'A sensitive, necessary, brave book.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us

What building doesn't have secrets?
How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour's doors?

On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend's empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room.

In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banker takes up a dark and malicious new calling.

Before he knows it, Edward will find himself entangled in their web, and as the summer heat intensifies so do tensions within and without the building, leading to a city-wide wave of violence, and a reckoning within the walls of number 37.

With a sultry heat to rival A Year in Provence and all the sharp perception of Leila Slimani's Lullaby, These Dividing Walls is a beautifully written and eye-opening novel about the Paris we don't see.

'It'll open your heart and mind. It certainly did mine' The Pool

'An unforgettable and unexpected portrait of Paris' Hannah Rothschild

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What readers have said about These Dividing Walls:

'Totally engrossing - it was a magical pleasure to lose myself in these people's world each night'

'The quality of the writing in These Dividing Walls is never short of exquisite'

'This is an outstanding debut novel from an author to watch'

'A delightful glimpse into the lives of a group of people one hot and fearful summer'

Recenzii

An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris.
Confident and brilliant
This book played into my acute nosiness, throwing open the doors to the fictional lives of the residents of number 37 . . . It'll open your heart and your mind. It certainly did mine.
A multi-layered novel, elevated by fine writing, in which our traditional view of Paris is debunked to show a less familiar side of the city. Cooper's expertly realised characters, both sympathetic and not, have stories that are interwoven with aplomb.
Cooper has written a Ship of Fools for today, bringing forth the poetry and pathos of ordinary lives.
The Paris of this skillful yet tender debut novel is not the Paris of our Eurostar mini breaks.
Cooper's characters are what make this novel so readable.
The writing tantalizingly evokes the sights and sounds of Paris while also giving us an eye-opening perspective of a side of the city that we don't know much about. It is a nuanced portrayal of relationships and the whole spectrum of human emotions.
This beautifully written debut is about love and loss.
Timely and thoughtful, it's perhaps one of the first novels to reflect back the state of our current society.
I absolutely loved this book and I can't wait to read more from the author who I'm sure has a glittering career ahead of her.
The writing is exquisite and discursive.
An erudite and engaging read
Cooper's writing is exceptional. ... It's a beautifully crafted novel.
An enchanting and beautifully written debut
It's the voices of various neighbours in their apartment block that make this novel special.
In a Paris tense with summer heat, anger and hate drive its people to drastic action, in this intensely satisfying and timely novel of a city in crisis.
What building doesn't have secrets?
How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour's doors?
On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend's empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room.
In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banker takes up a dark and malicious new calling.
Before he knows it, Edward will find himself entangled in their web, and as the summer heat intensifies so do tensions within and without the building, leading to a city-wide wave of violence, and a reckoning within the walls of number 37.