Her Fearful Symmetry di Audrey Niffenegger

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Her Fearful Symmetry (edizione 2010)

di Audrey Niffenegger

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When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.… (altro)

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Utente:	lynseyh
Titolo:	Her Fearful Symmetry
Autori:	Audrey Niffenegger
Info:	Vintage (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 496 pages
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obscurelens: Story about twins and ghosts. Darker than Her Fearful Symmetry, but I think it's far better than this.
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Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla di Felix Barker (lilithcat)
lilithcat: For those who wish to know more about this book's setting, I highly recommend Barker's. It includes an essay on the history of Highgate, one on well-known burials, and has a section of wonderful photographs. Highgate is very unlike the manicured, geometrically laid-out modern cemeteries, and, if those are the only ones with which you are familiar, Barker gives you a sense of the atmosphere this young American women encountered.… (altro)
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I forgot how good this is. I should make a map of all the places she mentions. (

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RaynaPolsky | Apr 23, 2024 |

This novel starts and maintains a level of normalcy and maintains it throughout although it gets quite bizarre with ghosts haunting the apartment and tv and kittens getting killed…
But the best part is Martin with his crippling OCD and love for his wife Marijke and his vow to leave his apt and travel to her in Amsterdam. (

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Smits | Mar 16, 2024 |

Family Drama

BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |

Story: 6 / 10
Characters: 8
Setting: 7
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MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |

I think this book might, might, might be a 4.75 instead of a 5, but then again, I might be judging it too harshly since her first book (the Time Traveler's Wife) is so perfect and lovely. You see, I think this is a nearly perfect book too, but I'm not sure I loved it in quite the same way as the other. I can't imagine how these stories unfold in her mind, because they are so intricate and so dependent on minutiae that it seems almost impossible to write such a book so flawlessly. My only criticism would be that I came to care for the characters only late in the book (maybe 100 pages in), meaning that I got to spend less time with them than I would have liked after I really cared about them and understood each one's point of view. I must give serious points for controlled creepiness; there are parts of this book that are downright terrifying, except that somehow the events described seem logical and normal at the same time. I will certainly re-read this one, as I have re-read her other one so many, happy times. (

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Niffenegger’s story is written with a lightness of touch and with a great eye for the oddities of human behaviour.

aggiunto da riverwillow | modificaThe Daily Telegraph, Lorna Bradbury (Oct 19, 2009)

Niffenegger has always identified loss as her main subject, but here at least it’s dissolution: the grim inevitability of decay. The theme of doubleness feeds into this. Valentina wants to break free of the controlling Julia and live her own life, but can she survive without her? Forced togetherness, the “fearful symmetry” of the title, can lead to a diminution of individual identity, a merging of personalities. Sometimes apartness is preferable.

aggiunto da riverwillow | modificaThe Times, John O'Connell (Oct 10, 2009)

Instead of fabricating ghosts and faux-Englishmen, it's a shame that Niffeneggers didn't just cut away all the cobwebby Halloween trappings and write a moving, realistic story about a man with OCD who is trapped for real, rather than ersatz, reasons in a flat overlooking a cemetery. She sustains a mood, but it is vaguely repellent, rather than enjoyably disquieting. Instead of a lingering, unforgettable ghost story, this is the novelistic equivalent of a cut-rate séance, a parlour game complete with Ouija boards and cheap theatrics, as unconvincing as knuckles rapping under tables

aggiunto da Taphophile13 | modificaThe Guardian, Sarah Churchwell (Oct 10, 2009)

Niffenegger is an extraordinarily sensitive and accomplished writer, and Her Fearful Symmetry is a work of lovely delicacy... But Her Fearful Symmetry is not a book of great emotional force, not the way Time Traveler's Wife was.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaTime, Lev Grossman (Oct 5, 2009)

Mysteries and truths slowly unravel as the story progresses. The major plot resolves predictably, but its grim inevitability fits well with the genre, and a few more surprising twists produce an even more satisfying read than Niffenegger’s bestselling debut.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaThe A. V. Club, Samantha Nelson (Oct 1, 2009)

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Audrey Niffenegger	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Amato, Bianca	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Korhonen, Paula	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Sheckels, Jen	Immagine di copertina	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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Dublin Literary Award (Lista completa – 2011)

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Her Fearful Symmetry

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2009-09-25

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London, England, UK

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London, England, N6 6PJ UK

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Camden Town, London, England, UK

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She said, "I know what it's like to be dead.
I know what it is to be sad."
And she's making me feel like I've never been born.
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For Jean Pateman, with love

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Elspeth died while Robert was standing in front of a vending machine watching tea shoot into a small paper cup.

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As a historian he knew that any trove of documents has incendiary potential. So the boxes sat like unexploded ordinance on the floor of his bedroom and Robert did his best to ignore them.

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When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.

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