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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Synonym that first comes to mind when I finished this book was “sweeping”. Beginning with Napoleon’s 1806 grand entry into Berlin and spanning a century, Bartulin’s globe-spanning book looks at the impact of Napoleon’s triumphant on a few people whose lives briefly touched on that day. What I came away with was the feeling for all the horrible things that are bad, there are people of the world who are kind, loyal and respect humankind. 4.25 Stars. I have been a fan of Lenny Bartulin’s writing for some time. His narrative style is one of artistry and poetic precision delivered with disarming irreverence. I highly recommend his enthralling ‘historical Australian western’ novel Infamy and the snappy prose in his Jack Susko Mystery Series. For context, it is also worth pointing out that I cannot get enough of novels that feature interwoven stories, e.g. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas ranks as one of my all-time favourites. Fortune reads like a global adventure puzzle, with alternating narratives and complex character sets. Lenny Bartulin provides readers only bite-size windows into moments of different characters lives, and alternates between each at pace. Some life paths intersect or are influenced by others, and some characters appear only briefly. In this way, Bartulin depicts the often fickle nature of things and the great extent to which circumstances lasting mere seconds (those sliding doors moments) can have irrevocable and long term impact on history. This philosophical, sliding door concept has always appealed to me, and so I found this satirisation of history amusing. In many respects, it is how I see the world, but not necessarily how others do. Those who prescribe to the omnibenevolent deity theory may not be quite so enamoured. Continue reading review>> https://bookloverbookreviews.com/2019/08/fortune-by-lenny-bartulin-book-review-g... According to the press release that came with this book, Lenny Bartulin wanted to show with this novel Fortune that The historical impact of war, money and technology is seismic, yet the ramifications on the individual are uniquely personal and can have myriad influences on our relationships. I thought immediately of Louis de Bernieres when I read these ambitions. He is one of many authors to write about little people caught up in and buffeted by earth-shattering historical events. He’s not always wholly successful as you can see in Birds without Wings and in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, but he does succeed in making his readers care about the individuals caught up in the maelstrom. Unfortunately, the reader barely gets to know the characters in Fortune, much less care about their fates. Indeed, because so many characters just slip off the map the hapless reader struggles a bit to identify who the central characters are, and how (if ever) their trajectories intersect. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/07/01/fortune-by-lenny-bartulin/ nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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An audacious, entertaining historical epic spanning continents and centuries, for readers of David Mitchell, Column McCann, Kate Atkinson, and Eleanor Catton. Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising, and gripping historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness this momentous event, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world-their fates and desires sometimes intersecting-to strange lands in the Caribbean and South America, the Australian continent and van Diemen's Land, and back to a Europe now transformed. A frustrated general in Napoleon's army, billeted with one of Berlin's finest families. Elisabeth, a passionate young woman living with her aunt in that house. A young man of eighteen years and no particular talent, drawn to the smoky coffeehouses where students debate, whom she spies through a window fornicating with a serving girl at the moment Napoleon makes his grand entrance. An entrepreneur in New World exotica with a passion for shrunken heads, to whose house the young man was led for his tryst. A slave from Suriname, Mr. Hendriks, with his resentful white American companion, who have traveled to Berlin to sell a barrel of electric eels for their master. And a student enamored of philosophy, who will join Mr. Hendricks and the American on their return voyage. Through their stories amid war, cataclysm, colliding cultures, and misadventure, Lenny Bartulin imagines the ways that grand events in extraordinary times can shape the course of ordinary live Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.4Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Post-Elizabethan 1625-1702Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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