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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mr. and Mrs. Doctordi Julie Iromuanya
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act. Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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