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Without Warning and Only Sometimes de Kit de Waal

Without Warning and Only Sometimes

Autor Kit de Waal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2022

Relația dintre Kit de Waal și subiectul acestor memorii este una de o onestitate brutală, născută din nevoia de a înțelege cum extremele unei familii pot modela destinul unui scriitor. Subliniem faptul că Without Warning and Only Sometimes nu este doar o cronică a sărăciei, ci o analiză fină a modului în care identitatea se fragmentează atunci când ești prins între trei lumi: moștenirea irlandeză, rădăcinile caraibiene și realitatea dură a Birmingham-ului din anii '60. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în contrastul dintre mama autoarei, o femeie austeră care trăia sub amenințarea apocalipsei iminente, și tatăl său, un spirit exuberant care risipea resursele familiei pe aparențe princiare. Narativul amintește de This Boy de Alan Johnson prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă a lipsurilor materiale compensate de o vitalitate culturală ieșită din comun. Față de lucrările sale de ficțiune, precum My Name Is Leon sau The Best of Everything, unde temele familiei alese și ale abandonului sunt explorate prin lentila imaginației, acest volum de memorii oferă materia primă, neprelucrată, a propriei existențe. Este povestea unei fetițe pentru care Biblia era singura fereastră către cuvântul scris, dar care a reușit să transforme foamea și rigoarea religioasă într-o pasiune salvatoare pentru literatură. Stilul este alert, specific formatului 'Quick Reads', dar păstrează acea căldură și profunzime care au consacrat-o pe Kit de Waal în peisajul literar contemporan.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472284846
ISBN-10: 1472284844
Pagini: 289
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Tinder Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care apreciază memoriile oneste despre formarea identității în medii multiculturale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă emoționantă asupra rezilienței infantile și a modului în care lectura poate deveni un refugiu în fața fanatismului sau a privațiunilor. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile creativității unei autoare premiate, oferind o lecție despre cum poți găsi frumusețea chiar și atunci când 'paradisul' promis de părinți întârzie să apară.

Despre autor

Kit de Waal este o scriitoare britanică de succes, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a da voce celor marginalizați. Romanul său de debut, My Name Is Leon, a fost un bestseller internațional, câștigând Irish Novel Prize și fiind nominalizat la premii prestigioase precum Costa First Novel Award. Cu o carieră marcată de explorarea temelor sociale și a dinamicii familiale, ea a publicat și literatură pentru tineri, cum este volumul Becoming Dinah. În Without Warning and Only Sometimes, ea își folosește talentul narativ pentru a documenta propria creștere într-o familie de imigranți din Birmingham, oferind contextul biografic pentru întreaga sa operă literară.

Notă biografică

Kit de Waal is the author of the novels MY NAME IS LEON, which was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and THE TRICK TO TIME, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and a short story collection, SUPPORTING CAST. She is also editor of the COMMON PEOPLE anthology, and co-founder of the Big Book Weekend festival. MY NAME IS LEON is being adapted as a one-hour film for BBC1.

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'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes
AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4
From the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: stinging, warm-hearted, and true.

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.

Caught between three worlds, Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham, Kit and her brothers and sisters knew all the words to the best songs, caught sticklebacks in jam jars and braved hunger and hellfire until they could all escape.

WITHOUT WARNING AND ONLY SOMETIMES is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day

Recenzii

Extraordinary . . . De Waal has a gift for the deft detail that will bring a story or character alive . . . A moving, heart-warming account of a girl who grows up in a house with no books except the Bible, gets in with a bad crowd and nearly goes under. In the end, and after she has left home, she is saved by books. When she can't sleep she reads the classics. Now she may even have written one
An astonishingly good evocation of the dream and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham
A terrific evocation of her family life in 1960s Birmingham
In the end, this is a survivor's story. It doesn't pull any punches, but it ends with a girl determined to live, to "turn the page and keep reading"
Intelligent, angry and sometimes very funny
Dynamic and immersive, Kit de Waal's effervescent memoir documents a fraught childhood of opposites and conflicting identities with wit, humanity and an uncanny power for bringing the figures of her youth to vibrant life.
A delightful and harrowing book. I can't think of another since Edmund Gosse's Father and Son that gives such a well-written child's-eye view of an upbringing in a suffocating Christian sect . . . I highly recommend
This is a sometimes bleak, often funny tale of finding a way to live through reading, which is all the more amazing given the only book in Kit's house was the Bible
Kit's writing is beautiful - vivid and compelling, and so moving. Families are such a mix of joy and pain and Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic was both painful and comforting to read. There's so much love, warmth and hope. I wanted to keep reading this book for ever
I knew Kit de Waal was special the moment I met her. And now I know why
Warm, honest, perceptive and moving, and the very best kind of memoir, because not only does it tell you about someone else's life, it tells you about your own
I loved it and couldn't put it down. Both joyous and heartbreaking, it captures an era and is also a beautiful tribute to sibling love, and a completely compelling story of how one girl became a reader
A window into an extraordinary childhood, told with blistering wit, pathos and joy, I could not have loved this more. Kit takes you on a thrilling ride traversing her past filled with humour, faith, joy and dysfunction. I defy you not to lake it into your heart
I couldn't put this book down. Beautifully written and searingly honest. Eye-opening, funny and moving - the words fly off the page. I didn't want this book to end Kit de Waal is a natural born storyteller
I adored this book. The beauty of its prose, the poetry of its imagery. It's open-hearted, frank, funny, and wise. Unflinching but unpitying. I've returned to most sections twice and several a few more than that. It's a memoir filled with warmth, joy and heartbreak, written with the immediacy of a thriller and the poignancy of a love letter. It is a love letter - to a brave, curious, funny girl I now feel like I've known all my life
Touching and authentic - I loved this memoir
A beautifully written and unsentimental account of growing up Black and Irish in Birmingham at a time when neither were particularly welcome. Inspiring, unflinching and courageous