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Dust (2014)

di Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--… (altro)
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Read a few chapters. The writing seems interesting, but it's too hard for me to keep track of the people, and what's going on. Maybe I'll try it again someday?
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
I really wanted to enjoy this book. It isn't the type of book I would normally pick up, but I was looking for something different, and the description grabbed me. However, I couldn't get on with the way the story was written. The prose came across more as some type of poetry (and I really dislike reading poetry). It seemed disjointed and cryptic and reading it was hard work. I persevered to around the halfway point, but reading shouldn't be hard work. It's a shame, as there was a good story lurking under there, but it became a little too swamped by the poetry for me. ( )
  Triduana | Jan 25, 2022 |
Нечетим роман. Нелеп опит за имитация на стила на Уилям Фокнър и Вирджиния Улф от автор без никакъв писателски опит зад гърба си. Използван е безумно претенциозен речник, изоблистват безглаголните изречения, абзаците от по една дума, пътуването във времето и пространството в рамките на един и същ абзац, без индикация и без спасителна сламка, за която читателят да може да се хване, за да знае къде и кога се случват събитията. Силата на африканския роман е в неговата увлекателност и повествователност, които, за съжаление аз не успях да открия в страниците на този безкраен роман. Само мъка, кръв, сълзи и прах. ( )
  terrigena | Aug 7, 2020 |
Ajany kehrt aus Brasilien nach Kenia zurück. Anlass ist der Tod ihres Bruders Odidi, der in den Straßen Nairobis erschossen wurde. Mit Ihrem Vater zusammen will Ajany den Leichnam nach Hause bringen, nach Hause auf eine heruntergekommene Farm im Norden des Landes. Mit der Trauer kommen auch die Erinnerungen.
Dann taucht auch noch Brite Isaiah Bolton auf, der auf der Suche nach seinem Vater Hugh ist, den er nie kennengelernt hat. Auch er kommt zu spät um von Odidi noch etwas über seinen Vater zu erfahren. Odidis Familie ist in der Trauer gefangen und will sich nicht auch noch mit dem Fremden auseinander setzen. Ajanys Mutter entzieht sich dem allen durch Flucht in die Wildnis.
Das Buch ist nicht einfach zu lesen. Es gibt viele Rückblicke und die Zeiten wechseln häufig, auf den ersten Blick nicht immer erkennbar. Der Schreibstil wirkt zerrissen und ist mit fremder Sprache durchsetzt. Die Erklärung gibt es zwar im Anhang, aber ich blättere ungern ständig während des Lesens zurück. Es dauerte eine Weile bis ich mich auf die Geschichte einlassen konnte, doch dann sah ich in der Zerrissenheit der Sprache die Zerrissenheit der Gefühle. Die Sprache ist außerordentlich kraftvoll und voller Bilder und Metaphern.
Es ist eine uns fremde Welt, die wir kennenlernen und auch wenn einem beim Lesen manches verständlicher wird, bleibt sie uns weiterhin fremd. Nichtsdestotrotz nimmt einen die Geschichte gefangen.
In Ajanys Erinnerungen erfahren wir sehr viel darüber, wie die Geschwister aufgewachsen sind. Aber auch die Erinnerungen an die koloniale Gewaltherrschaft und die blutigen Auseinandersetzungen nach der Unabhängigkeit haben die Familienmitglieder weiterhin im Griff. Es ist sicherlich hilfreich, wenn man schon ein wenig über die Geschichte Kenias weiß.
Die Figuren sind alle ganz besondere Charaktere, die authentisch und interessant dargestellt sind. Sie sind versteinert in ihrer Trauer und verzweifelt.
Ich kann das Buch nur empfehlen. ( )
  buecherwurm1310 | Oct 5, 2019 |
Painful, somewhat dreamlike story of a family enmeshed in Kenya's traumas, past and present. Through the story of one family, Owuor examines the myths aoubt themselves and their country that Kenyans perpetuate and that keep them from facing the reality of their situation. ( )
  kaitanya64 | Jan 3, 2017 |
few American readers have heard of this 45-year-old author before now. That must change. Owuor demonstrates extraordinary talent and range in these pages. Her style is alternately impressionistic and harsh, incantatory and propulsive. One moment, she keeps us trapped within the bloodied walls of a torture cell; in the next, her poetic voice soars over sun-baked plains. She can clear the gloom with passages of Dickensian comedy or tender romance, but most of her novel takes places in “haunted silences.” “Dust” moves between the lamentation of a single family and the corruption of national politics, swirling around one young man’s death to create a vortex of grief that draws in generations of deceit and Kenya’s tumultuous modern history.
 
In 2011, writing in the Book Review about a memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina, ­Alexandra Fuller opened with a marvelous plea: “Harried reader, I’ll save you precious time. Skip this review and head directly to the bookstore.”

Harried reader, skip this one, too, and go buy Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “Dust.” In this dazzling novel you will find the entirety of human experience — tearshed, bloodshed, lust, love — in staggering proportions.
 
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