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Tiger: shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2019

Autor N/a Polly Clark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2020

Tradusă din limba engleză, opera lui N/a Polly Clark aduce în peisajul beletristicii contemporane o vibrație rară, unde precizia observației științifice se topește în lirismul unei naturi neîmblânzite. Putem afirma că în Tiger, limbajul își păstrează asprimea taigalei siberiene, dar și delicatețea unei conexiuni inter-specii care transcende cuvântul. Notăm cu interes modul în care Clark, o poetă premiată, reușește să evite antropomorfizarea facilă, oferind în schimb o perspectivă viscerală asupra supraviețuirii. Premisa ne poartă pe două continente: o întâlnim pe Frieda, o primatoloagă a cărei lume ordonată este distrusă de violență, și pe Tomas, un rus care asistă la prăbușirea echilibrului natural în sălbăticie. Dacă în debutul său, Larchfield, autoarea explora izolarea și geniul literar al lui W.H. Auden, în Tiger ea se apleacă asupra instinctului pur. Remarcăm o structură narativă ambițioasă, unde destinele unei tigroaice și ale puilor săi se intersectează cu cele ale personajelor umane, într-un joc al răzbunării și al regăsirii de sine. Forța narativă documentară a lui John Vaillant din The Tiger se combină aici cu sensibilitatea ecologică și emoția din Once There Were Wolves de Charlotte McConaghy, dar N/a Polly Clark își impune un glas propriu, mai contemplativ și profund marcat de experiența sa personală ca îngrijitoare de animale. Este un roman despre trauma care ne forțează să ne redescoperim latura sălbatică pentru a putea trăi din nou.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786485434
ISBN-10: 1786485435
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția riverrun
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman celor care caută o literatură de o frumusețe aspră, care chestionează locul omului în ierarhia naturală. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra conservării speciilor, susținută de experiența reală a autoarei în Siberia. Este o lectură despre reziliență, ideală pentru admiratorii prozei care îmbină rigoarea biologului cu sensibilitatea poetului, oferind un motiv concret de reflecție asupra modului în care ne vindecăm prin reconectarea cu instinctele umane fundamentale.


Descriere

**The thrilling new novel by the prize-winning author of Larchfield**

'Passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel' Guardian
'Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wild' Laline Paull

Set across two continents, Tiger is a sweeping story of survival and redeeming love that plunges the reader into one of the world's last wildernesses with blistering authenticity.

Frieda is a primatologist, sensitive and solitary, until a violent attack shatters her ordered world. In her new role as a zookeeper, she confronts a very different ward: an injured wild tiger.

Deep in the Siberian taiga, Tomas, a Russian conservationist, fears that the natural order has toppled. The king tiger has been killed by poachers and a spectacular tigress now patrols his vast territory as her own.

In a winter of treacherous competition, the path of the tigress and her cub crosses with an Udeghe huntress and her daughter. Vengeance must follow, and the fates of both tigers and people are transformed.

Learning of her tiger's past offers Frieda the chance of freedom. Faced with the savage forces of nature, she must trust to her instinct and, like the tiger, find a way to live in the world.

Recenzii

Fierce, elegant and compelling as the tiger itself, this is less a novel than the very force of nature caught in fiction. Grabbed me by the imagination and carried me into the wilds of animal and human nature.
Visceral . . . exotic . . . An impassioned celebration of second chances
Unsettling, immersive . . . A startling, gore-splattered, nerve-racking exploration of how human and animal territories - both physical and psychic - collide . . . Combining the propulsiveness of a thriller with the raw yet meditative tone of a memoir, Clark writes with a poet's ear and a naturalist's eye, and has a deep grasp of the profound contract between indigenous peoples and the beasts they revere. She never loses sight of the endangered creature that forms the beating heart of a passionate, remarkable and uplifting novel.
Electrifying - one to watch
Lyrical and richly imagined, immersing the reader in the Siberian wilderness. Tackling themes of grief, motherhood and empowerment, it questions the price we pay for freedom and for love.
A gorgeously written and unique novel that plunges the reader right into a vividly described natural world
A captivating walk on the wild side
Polly Clark's new novel, which is largely set in the vast Siberian taiga, or frozen forest, has some utterly convincing depictions of life there - the privations, the isolation, the magnificent Siberian tigers, the astounding cold. And the reason they convince is that, in late 2017, the poet and author, realising that only first-hand experience would suffice, went out there and saw it all for herself . . . Striking
The pages of in-cage interaction and silent tracking through the snowy taiga really should carry a reminder to breathe. At curtain call, though, the most thunderous ovation would go to the tigers, serene and relentless at nature's extremes, superbly rendered by the author, who to be sure of her material learnt how to track them in the depths of a Siberian winter . . . Don't be surprised if you also find yourself hooked.
Readers with a passion for wildlife conservation will lap up this lovely novel, which moves easily between a zoo in Devon and the frozen wastes of Siberia . . . Clark has based her novel on personal experience and is as adept at looking at the world through the eyes of a tiger as she is at capturing the animal's incomparable physical grace.
Clark's tigress is magnificent and terrifying . . . Clark's description of the snowbound wilderness is excellent . . . Clark shows us nature red in tooth and claw and human claws may be as sharp as a tiger's . . . Her evocation of the terrifying wastes of the taiga and the grim horrors of a Siberian winter represents a real and memorable achievement. The book will surely sell well; it deserves to do so.
What an achievement! So evocative of the Siberian taiga, so telling about life's imperfections, so beautifully structured to foster faith in new beginnings. Read and revive your optimism in our uncertain times!