Julie Iromuanya
Autore di Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Logan Conner
Opere di Julie Iromuanya
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1982
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Central Florida
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- creative writing & Africana Studies professor, Northeastern Illinois University
Utenti
Recensioni
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor di Julie Iromuanya
A great book about marriage, capitalism, racism, immigration, class, so many important topics, handled so beautifully & subtly, with an ending worthy of Flaubert's Sentimental Education.
Job and Ifi are living breathing three dimensional characters who are somehow dropped into a plot that feels like a piece of Ikea furniture still disassembled and in its box. Is it a table? Is it a bookcase? the two central characters are so strong and believable, so I had high hopes, and even though I'm being harsh here I'm glad to have met these fictional characters. But their story is a muddle full of contradiction, melodrama, and coincidence. The ancillary characters behave in ways that completely baffled me. It reads like a terrific first draft.… (altro)
An incredible debut novel by Julie Iromuanya. This is a story of an arranged marriage of Job and Ifi, a Nigerian couple beginning their life together in a cold and inhospitable Nebraska. A complicated story of leaving one culture and trying, yet, never quite fitting into another. A heart breaker but highly recommended.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 58
- Popolarità
- #284,346
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 2