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Sto caricando le informazioni... Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel (edizione 2009)di Audrey Niffenegger
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Elspeth war Roberts grosse Liebe. Jetzt liegt sie auf Highgate, dem romantisch verwildertem Friedhof Londons. Doch Elspeth scheint lebendiger als je zuvor, denn die Erinnerungen sind stärker als der Tod. Robert riecht sie, spürt sie, spricht mit ihr. Es ist als lebe sie weiter und als sei ihr Tod nur ein böser Traum. Alle, die ihr nahestanden, geraten in ihren Bann. Bis ihre Nichten, die Zwillinge Valentina und Julia eine fatale Wette mit ihr eingehen. Vor der Kulisse des pulsierenden Londons erzählt Audrey Niffenegger aufwühlend, in zarten und manchmal dunklen Tönen, von der unstillbaren Sehnsucht, dem anderen ewig nahe zu sein. This novel starts and maintains a level of normalcy and maintains it throughout although it gets quite bizarre with ghosts haunting the apartment and tv and kittens getting killed… But the best part is Martin with his crippling OCD and love for his wife Marijke and his vow to leave his apt and travel to her in Amsterdam.
Niffenegger’s story is written with a lightness of touch and with a great eye for the oddities of human behaviour. Niffenegger has always identified loss as her main subject, but here at least it’s dissolution: the grim inevitability of decay. The theme of doubleness feeds into this. Valentina wants to break free of the controlling Julia and live her own life, but can she survive without her? Forced togetherness, the “fearful symmetry” of the title, can lead to a diminution of individual identity, a merging of personalities. Sometimes apartness is preferable. Instead of fabricating ghosts and faux-Englishmen, it's a shame that Niffeneggers didn't just cut away all the cobwebby Halloween trappings and write a moving, realistic story about a man with OCD who is trapped for real, rather than ersatz, reasons in a flat overlooking a cemetery. She sustains a mood, but it is vaguely repellent, rather than enjoyably disquieting. Instead of a lingering, unforgettable ghost story, this is the novelistic equivalent of a cut-rate séance, a parlour game complete with Ouija boards and cheap theatrics, as unconvincing as knuckles rapping under tables Niffenegger is an extraordinarily sensitive and accomplished writer, and Her Fearful Symmetry is a work of lovely delicacy... But Her Fearful Symmetry is not a book of great emotional force, not the way Time Traveler's Wife was. Mysteries and truths slowly unravel as the story progresses. The major plot resolves predictably, but its grim inevitability fits well with the genre, and a few more surprising twists produce an even more satisfying read than Niffenegger’s bestselling debut. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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