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Sto caricando le informazioni... L' eco delle citta vuote (2011)di Madeleine Thien
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   Natt90 | Mar 7, 2023 |   ) laurenbufferd | Feb 15, 2018 | Haunted by the memories of the past, and the atrocities committed at the hand of the Khmer Rouge, Janie falls apart. Leaving her husband and young son, she seeks shelter at the home of a friend, he too has ghosts haunting him from the past. We learn of Janie's backstory, what happened to her family, and what life was like under the Khmer Rouge. Where nothing is ever the same, loyalties shift, and there is no firm ground. Eventually the two stories will combine, Heroji, searching for his brother and Janie trying to come to terms with her past. Such a devastating time period for so many, separations, the uncertainty, the brutality, all hallmarks of this horrendous time. The writing is sometimes repetitive and fragmented, but I found it very effective. We do get a clear understanding of what these people went through, and even what Phnom Penh, looked like after the Khmer Rouge were driven out. A difficult book to read, these type of stories always are, but not told dramatically nor overly emotional. I thought this was quite well done, combining memories, trauma, with the two leading characters studying the brain in the present, but realizing that the past is never quite gone. ARC from Edelweiss. (  ) Beamis12 | Sep 24, 2017 | The language is strong and nevertheless the feelings are very sensitive. Even if it is a fiction, many people have experienced this and have great difficulties that this sad destiny does not hinder them in today's everyday life. ( ) Ameise1 | Feb 8, 2017 | ) JenBurge | Mar 20, 2015 |
 If for each season there is a book, then Dogs at the Perimeter belongs to winter -and in particular to the sullen clouds and ever-looming darkness of November. Depicting a "broken world [that] finally fell apart," Madeleine Thien's sophomore novel is mournful, gloomy, despairing and monochromatic. Not a novel with a reader's enjoyment anywhere in its agenda, Dogs can be instead witnessed, puzzled over and, on occasion, merely endured.  In stark, beautiful prose, Thien (whose first work of fiction, Simple Recipes, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book) shows that it’s through these characters’ relationships with others—like James’s complicated bond with his brother, or Janie’s with her husband and son, and the connection between Janie and Hiroji—that a more permanent identity is created. Among the numerous episodes of mass murder characteristic of the 20th century, the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia stands out as one of the most bizarre and horrifying. Overrunning Cambodia in 1975, this revolutionary army waged war on half the population of the country — anybody educated, middle class, living in a city. Before the Khmer Rouge or the Angkar (the organization) were finished, well over a million Cambodians had died at their hands. “Families are a disease of the past,” ran one of their tenets, as quoted in Madeleine Thien’s novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, and so families were split apart and individual members driven into rural communes where they worked the fields and perished from disease, starvation and execution. Interrogators extracted confessions from these forced labourers, detailed written accounts of their lives. If the accounts were deemed unsatisfactory they were rewritten several times. It was a highly organized attempt to reduce every person to zero...This is harrowing stuff, but before absorbing it, a reader must come to terms with certain structural and stylistic aspects of the novel. Her sentences tend to be poetically constructed, with idiosyncratic use of language...I do not mean to be picky, and there are certainly striking passages throughout the novel, but it is fair to say Thien’s language does tend to call attention to itself in ways that are not always fortunate...Narrative becomes disjointed, impressionistic, almost incoherent Thien strong enough to let ambiguity stand.... MONTREAL-BASED Madeleine Thien's second novel is a fractured and fragmented story that inhabits both 1970s Cambodia and modern-day Montreal...Thien conveys the sense that both Janie and Hiroji might be able to cobble together enough of the pieces of themselves to stay sane. But they might not. And Thien is a brave and strong enough writer to let that final ambiguity stand The beauty of Madeleine Thien’s prose doesn’t reside only in its clarity and elegance. She’s a surveyor of damaged lives, and her characters no longer possess the requisite layers of skin to protect them from what they have endured, and what they remember. Thien, a deeply empathetic writer, enfolds her wounded creations in morally precise language, offering the consolation of, in effect, storytelling. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiElenchi di rilievo
Set in Cambodia during the regime of the Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of Janie, who as a child experiences the terrible violence carried out by the Khmer Rouge and loses everything she holds dear. Three decades later, Janie has relocated to Montreal, although the scars of her past remain visible. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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