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HTML:"My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I've read in years."??A Cup of Jo
From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between? With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and livi… (altro)
A warm, tender heartbreaking book about a trio of friends, reminiscent of Jules et Jim, and the power of art and love to change daily lives. The Guardian quotes the beginning of the story: In the prologue to [a:Sarah Winman|4197193|Sarah Winman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1357479615p2/4197193.jpg]'s third novel, a woman defies her husband at the local community centre when, upon winning a raffle, she chooses as her prize not the whisky her husband desires but a reproduction of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: “It was her first ever act of defiance. Like cutting off an ear. And she’d made it in public.” Lovely writing, empathetic characters and a satisfying tale set in Oxford and the South of France amidst the sunflowers. I looked forward to each reading. ( )
Das Buch spielt in Oxford, aber nicht im universitären Kontext, sondern in der Arbeiterklasse. Am Anfang gewinnt die junge Dora 1950 ein Bild, eine Kopie der Sonnenblumen von van Gogh. Dieses Bild ist für sie sehr, sehr wichtig. Es symbolisiert eine andere Lebensweise als die, die sie kennt. Ihr Sohn Ellis ist der Tinman, das ist der englische Titel des Buches. Wie der Tinman aus dem Zauberer von Oz hat er zwei Freunde, die er über alles liebt, Michael und Alice. Das Buch erzählt die Freundschaft und Liebe, der drei, aber zu einer Zeit, als Alice und Michael bereits nicht mehr leben und Ellis 46 Jahre alt ist. Es ist ein schönes und auch trauriges Buch. Nicht alle Punkte haben mich überzeugt. Beispielsweise war mir nicht ganz klar, was Alice und Michael verbunden hat. ( )
Winman is very good at creating vivid, flawed, and lovable characters, and very believable relationships between them. Tin Man is about three people who care very deeply for each other, sometimes as friends and sometimes as lovers. The story unfolds unsequentially. The reader knows from the opening chapter that it ends in grief, but Winman manages to pull off a bittersweet ending. I saw a blurb somewhere that says this book will warm your heart while also breaking it, and that is totally true. For a short book, it packs a big emotional punch. ( )
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HTML:"My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I've read in years."??A Cup of Jo
From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between? With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and livi
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In the prologue to [a:Sarah Winman|4197193|Sarah Winman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1357479615p2/4197193.jpg]'s third novel, a woman defies her husband at the local community centre when, upon winning a raffle, she chooses as her prize not the whisky her husband desires but a reproduction of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: “It was her first ever act of defiance. Like cutting off an ear. And she’d made it in public.”
Lovely writing, empathetic characters and a satisfying tale set in Oxford and the South of France amidst the sunflowers. I looked forward to each reading. (