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Informazioni sull'operaThe White Bone di Barbara Gowdy (1998)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The story, overall, was very sad. I kept hoping that all the anguish of sticking with the reading of the book would be rewarded at the end by some happiness, but the author was very stingy and kept it all to herself. I was very disappointed. There is no climax, no conclusion. She could have given us readers that much....... ( )
Barbara Gowdys Roman überzeugt durch gute Recherche und die phantasievolle Ausgestaltung des Zusammenlebens afrikanischer Elefanten. Man wird unweigerlich in die sonderbare Welt der Dickhäuter versetzt und erfährt zugleich mehr über seine eigene Welt. Die Geschichte ist traurig, ungewöhnlich und spannend zugleich. Ein faszinierendes Buch - nicht nur für Elefantenfreunde! ... Gowdy has created a landscape, a cosmology, and a community that are wholly surprising and believable. The White Bone is a singular and remarkable novel. The novel is a tour de force. The White Bone is a spectacular achievement. Comic, apocalyptic, faintly hopeful, The White Bone succeeds as a brave and captivating act of imagination. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiDiana Taschenbuch (162)
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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