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Sto caricando le informazioni... Old filth (originale 2004; edizione 2006)di Jane Gardam
Informazioni sull'operaFiglio dell'impero britannico di Jane Gardam (2004)
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Here's what I wrote in 2013 about this read: "First in trilogy and was just fine to read second. So, Old Filth was emotionally detached due to a repeatedly detached set of childhood experiences. Great read to learn more about Raj Orphans and society's traditions away from the empire culture. Good tragic-comic story, too." Two of three quotes are extracts from Kindle. ( ) This is an excellent book -- good story, well written and well put together. The story doesn't proceed chronologically but dips in and out, telling the story piece by piece. As it goes forward, you put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together. Sometimes this method can be disjointed, but here it works very well, that is, Gardam puts it together very well. One of the Goodreads reviewers mentioned a comparison with Stoner. It didn't occur to me, but yes, that is a good comparison. Not only are the two books similar in some ways, but both are first rate and seem to be off the radar for many readers. Their loss. My dear friend Jim sent me [b:Old Filth|50284873|Old Filth|Jane Gardam|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1578255525l/50284873._SY75_.jpg|36965]. What a treat! As a privileged but neglected child I lived with other families and often found myself described in this beautifully constructed tale. That Old Filth is such a clean man was not lost on me nor were many of the reversals of name that were woven into the text. Half-way through, I realised the book had plunged me into a sombre, solitary mood which almost overwhelmed me. As an old man I felt even older and pretty much done for. I kept thinking of my friend Jim reading it in hospital. He had written to me ...suspended sick room time, still can’t stand up, reach for the book I’ve been reading, I’m near the end of my novel which is about memory, I’m at the bit when the old guy is lying in bed dying, delirious, remembering his early life and I’m lying in bed wondering about dying and confusing his memory with mine, did I marry someone named Betty and live Malaya? I don’t think so…. note to self, don’t read about old men dying when you’re an old man thinking about dying Trying to explain the book to others I found myself saying it was part Somerset Maugham, part Conrad. Jane Gardam concludes with an acknowledgement to Kipling's autobiography. So maybe it's also part Kipling. I'm aware that Old Filth is the first of a triolgy. While I'll definitely be seeking out book #2 [b:The Man in the Wooden Hat|6570431|The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)|Jane Gardam|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347802021l/6570431._SY75_.jpg|6763489] . Old Filth is a cleverly constructed tale by a gifted writer. Old Filth (Failed in London tried Hong Kong) a Raj orphan who was left behind or abused by parental figures at a critical age. Although is successful professionally, he ruminates about his life during bouts of sadness or frustration. Great characters and his story is both sad and, at times, quite funny. Loved it .... writing and story are wonderful.
Wat een ongelofelijk gaaf boek heeft de Britse Jane Gardam (geboren 1928) geschreven met De onberispelijke man – wat knap om zoveel personages, tijdvakken, werelddelen, historische feiten en nog zo veel meer (schijnbaar) moeiteloos te verweven tot een zeer pakkend en aangrijpend verhaal! Het verhaal is spannend, ontroerend, verrassend, meeslepend en zo kan ik nog wel even doorgaan…lees verder > Are you interested in venerable lawyers, the relic of empire? You will be. Do you want to know about the Far Eastern Bar? A reader of Old Filth, despite its unpromising title, will become passionately curious about such matters. This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece. On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read for years. I shall always remember the scene in which, putting up at the garish hotel that has replaced The Old Judges' Lodging, this most ramrod-backed and disciplined of elderly men sees his wife's obituary whilst doing his stately breakfasting. He "wept silently behind his hands, sitting in this unknown place" È contenuto inPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling's "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" that retraces much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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