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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Sleeping World: A Noveldi Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
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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 chaotic tale with lots of arguing and politics, and not much plot or character development. There is probably an audience for this book, but it wasn't me. I agree with their politics, but the story was very predictable young adult tale where one of them dies before the end of the book. ( ) It took me a long time to read this book. I stopped partway through and felt no urge to finish it. Finally, I decided to take a second look before sending it back to the library, and I'm so glad I did. Because while it's a hard book, in its subject and pacing, it's also gripping and ravishing. 1970's Spain at the end of the Franco regime decides to compromise, ignoring its recent fascist past in order to move into the future. Mosca, however, can't do the same. She has to undertake a painful journey through the circles of hell her country would rather ignore, in order to understand how to outlive the past. The pacing is often slow, and the poetry of the language sometimes lapses into repetition. Still, it's a stunning and ambitious first novel that unfolds into increasing richness as it progresses. This is a frightening novel of life in Spain right after the death of Franco in 1977. Mosca, a college student, has lost her parents to secret police murders, and is asked by her activist brother Alexis to hold on to incriminating evidence he has gathered. She and three companions travel to Madrid, Paris, and Cadiz to track down Alexis when he goes missing. They freeze and starve on their journey, and are dogged by informers and by trackers. What's inside Mosca's head is very disturbing, as is the entire climate of the country. The time and place were completely unfamiliar to me, as Franco was just a joke on Saturday Night Live before I read this book. Valuable as history but very difficult to stay with. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"A deeply moving debut novel set amidst the protests, punk music, and rebellious art of 1970s Spain, about a university student searching for her missing younger brother, willing to do anything--and sacrifice anyone--to find him. Spain, 1977. Military rule is over. Bootleg punk music oozes out of illegal basement bars and fascists fight anarchists for political control. Students perform protest art in the city center, rioting against the old government, the undecided new order, against the university, against themselves... Mosca is an intelligent, disillusioned university student, whose younger brother is among the "disappeared," kidnapped by the police, missing for two years, and presumed dead. Spurred by the turmoil around them, Mosca and her friends commit an act that carries their rebellion too far and sends them spiraling out of their provincial hometown. But the further they go, the more Mosca believes her brother is alive and the more she is willing to do anything to find him. In the tradition of Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers and Eleanor Henderson's Ten Thousand Saints, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes' debut The Sleeping World is a beautiful, daring novel about youth, freedom, and doing whatever it takes to keep a family together, in a nation whose dead walk the streets and whose wars never end"--"An incisive debut novel set in 70s Spain after the death of dictator Francisco Franco--amidst riots, protests, and uprising as the suppressed country awakens to freedom--about a young woman desperately searching for her brother, willing to risk everything and everyone around her to find him"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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