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Sto caricando le informazioni... And the Birds Rained Down (originale 2011; edizione 2013)di Jocelyne Saucier (Autore), Rhonda Mullins (Traduttore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Tres homes han decidit apartar-se del món i viure en unes cabanes al bosc. Dos joves els assisteixen, mentre fan créixer plantes de marihuana, i una fotògrafa va darrera d'un d'ells per tal d'entrevistar-lo i fotografiar-lo: és un heroi dels grans incendis del nord del Canadà de principis del segle XX. A més, se'ls ajunta una velleta que, durant molts anys, ha estat tancada acusada de bogeria. Crec que és una història en que s'atribueix cert romanticisme a l'opció de desaparèixer del món i a l'amor possible i impossible, a les segones oportunitats, a la tria de la pròpia vida i de la mort. Per a mi, el més positiu ha estat conèixer els grans incendis del Canadà, dels que no tenia ni idea. Entenc que la traducció és bona, perquè no m'ha "grinyolat" el llenguatge, només la història, per increïble, tot i que veig que té molt d'èxit. "La liberté, c'est de choisir sa vie. Et sa mort." Dans une foret canadienne, trois octogénaires vivent dans leurs cabanes au bord d'un lac. Ils ont choisi d'y vivre leurs dernières années loin de l'agitation du monde. Leur quotidien va être bousculé par l'arrivée d'une photographe puis d'une vieille dame, Marie-Desneige . Un roman brut, pur et poétique nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection!Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English TranslationDeep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms: free of all ties and responsibilities, their only connection to civilization two pot farmers who bring them whatever they can't eke out for themselves. But their solitude is disrupted by the arrival of two women. The first is a photographer searching for survivors of a series of catastrophic fires nearly a century earlier; the second is an elderly escapee from a psychiatric institution. The little hideaway in the woods will never be the same.Originally published in French, And the Birds Rained Down ,the recipient of several prestigious prizes, including the Prix de Cinq Continents de la Francophonie, is a haunting meditation on aging and self-determination. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.54Literature French French fiction 18th century 1715–89 Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de 1694–1778 (See 842.56)Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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There’s something intoxicating about the idea of going off grid, off the screen, and just living as one wishes away from all the disasters about- especially now. Not that life for these people is idyllic- each has a burden, each has a designated way out.
Amongst this and the destruction of lives wrought by the fire, comes a love, one that warms the heart more than a wood fire. A gentle, amazingly deep love.
The title, “and the birds rained down” is so evocative- it reminds me of Helen Humphreys story of the frozen birds in her book “The Frozen Thames”- something about birds being damaged by events seems so startling, so indicative of the all encompassing nature of a disaster...
Please read this book. You won’t ever forget it. ( )