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Sto caricando le informazioni... Eden: A Novel (originale 2005; edizione 2010)di Yael Hedaya (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I read through page 330 of this book. I can't go back to it. It was an interesting read while I was actively reading it, but it was too long and drawn out for me. I did enjoy another book by this author in the past so I'll not give up reading her works.Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I was bored by this domestic drama about an Israeli settlement turned middle class 'burb. It seemed kind of soap-opera-y to me and mundane. It's very character-driven and it might be an interesting book club pick for a synagogue group up for a longer book but it wasn't really the right book for me. I love her books; love her writing; love the leisurely pace that develops the characters. The structure, where each chapter was devoted to a different character, recurring throughout the book, worked beautifully to give us a long-term view of each character. By the end I felt part of their lives. The only character for whom this didn't work so well was Jane, Roni's American mother, who was only brought in at the end - but once she arrived, the way in which the story of Roni's birth was intertwined with her recovery was masterful. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. First thing I'll say is that this book is super long and it took me forever to finish. The premise of the book is two families dealing with issues such as infertility, infidelity, robbery and separation in a nut shell. I thought this book was eh okay. It did not blow my socks off.For more of the review, visit my book blog at: http://angelofmine1974.livejournal.com/37585.html Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Eden is a novel about a handful of characters, their lives and the intersection of them in a moshav outside of Tel Aviv. The most striking personality is Roni, a teenage girl who has lived in the U.S. with her hippy mother but now lives with her restauranteur father in Eden while she has various love affairs with three older men. The characters are what really make the story. Because it covers the day to day lives of all the characters, the plot can drag at time but Yael Hedaya makes it work because everyone has a unique and separate voice. Asides from this, Hedaya is able to bring in the personal pasts of the characters and how it effects their present actions. It works to further explore the personal relationships of those in the novel. The only major criticism that I have with this book is that Uri, a soon to be published writer that is one of Roni's lovers, doesn't have his own voice. He's influence plays such a major role in the novel but the reader knows so little about him.
Hedaya’s third book, Eden, reads like a psychologically astute Israeli version of American Beauty: Roni, not yet 16, has taken to sleeping with middle-aged men; someone in Eden, a collective farm turned SUV-infested suburb, is molesting young boys; one marriage is ending, another floundering over infertility.
From the head writer of the originalIn Treatment, an exquisite novel of the maturation of a girl, a family, and an entire community Eden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, Alona and Mark, drift apart and divorce under the resentful scrutiny of Roni, Mark's needy adolescent daughter. Against a rich panorama of Eden's oldtimers and newcomers, Mark, an emotionally detached architect, begins an involvement with his ex-wife's best friend, Dafna, who is desperately trying to conceive through the torments of technology, while sixteen-year-old Roni pursues the attention of older men by readily dispensing sexual favors. Over the course of one month, Roni's self-dramatizing turns to tragedy, her parents are jolted out of their absorbing concerns, and a new family structure begins to form out of an unlikely set of characters. Through a portrait of family entanglements, disappearing countryside, and disappointed expectations, Yael Hedaya, a determinedly plainspoken novelist, has brilliantly mapped the social and emotional ecology of midlife and achieved miracles of insight and understanding. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)892.436Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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