Where to Find Me
Autor Alba Arikhaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846884481
ISBN-10: 1846884489
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
ISBN-10: 1846884489
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Alma Books COMMIS
Colecția Alma Books
Caracteristici
A poignant tale about identity, loss and rebirth, which will appeal to all fans of Julian Barnes's Levels of Life, or Ian McEwan's Atonement or Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Notă biografică
Alba Arikha is the author of four books: Muse and Walking on Ice, published by Macmillan in 1998 and 2000. Her memoir, Major/Minor, about her adolescence in Paris, was published by Quartet Books, shortlisted for the Spear's Award and selected among the best books of 2012 by The New Yorker. Her last book, a narrative poem, Soon, was set to music and performed as an opera at the Riverside Studios, London. In addition to her books, Alba is also a singer-songwriter, has performed in London and Paris and recorded two CDs.
Recenzii
One hopes, one hunts, for a book that resembles nothing one has read before. Alba Arikha's Soon is not only a true original, it's beautiful, moving, and, yes, profound. Which makes it a rare creature indeed.
The looping structure and urgent storytelling of Where To Find Me pull the reader into the strange mechanics of our lives, by which historical cataclysms, dumb accident, momentary whims, and inexplicable desires act to bring us together or keep us apart.
Her parents were close friends of Samuel Beckett, who became Alba's god-father and encouraged her to write. Beckett's influence. can be found in her writing. [Where to Find Me] is an ambitious and satisfying novel.
Best books of 2018: Where to Find Me is a short novel that feels longer in the best kind of way. Arikha is shaping up to be a major writer, if she isn't one already.
Urgent storytelling
Elegant in style, complex and circular in construction, the story of Flora Dobbs comes to us via her unlikely friendship with a London teenager. Two worlds, two eras: an evocative and subtle novel.
Told in the same carefully-wrought, limpid prose that distinguished Arikha's memoir of her teenage years, Major/Minor, itself a marvellous book. The author, who is the daughter of renowned Franco-Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, and also Samuel Beckett's goddaughter, has written a beautiful, haunting novel that goes to the heart of questions of identity and belonging.
The interlinked narratives, voices in counterpoint, harmonise and diverge as Hannah reflects on her own family tragedy and debunks, through her investigation, some of Flora's articles of faith. Richly drawn characters, gorgeous language and the way it folds history delicately within the story of an individual life.
Where to Find Me, the fifth book by Alba Arikha, is the fascinating story of the lives of two women who are destined to become far more important to each other than they could ever have imagined, as well as of the intersecting lives of those closest to them.
The story is captivating. She layers chance encounters upon long-grasped secrets and lies; spins mystery and myth out of her characters' clashes with some of the most traumatic history of the 20th century, and explores the legacy of betrayal and tragedy.
Aching and luminous
In a book of many secrets and clandestine activities, the final clue lies in the title. There are traces of poetry and painting - including a meticulous attention to colour in passages describing Paris, Jerusalem and London.
The looping structure and urgent storytelling of Where To Find Me pull the reader into the strange mechanics of our lives, by which historical cataclysms, dumb accident, momentary whims, and inexplicable desires act to bring us together or keep us apart.
Her parents were close friends of Samuel Beckett, who became Alba's god-father and encouraged her to write. Beckett's influence. can be found in her writing. [Where to Find Me] is an ambitious and satisfying novel.
Best books of 2018: Where to Find Me is a short novel that feels longer in the best kind of way. Arikha is shaping up to be a major writer, if she isn't one already.
Urgent storytelling
Elegant in style, complex and circular in construction, the story of Flora Dobbs comes to us via her unlikely friendship with a London teenager. Two worlds, two eras: an evocative and subtle novel.
Told in the same carefully-wrought, limpid prose that distinguished Arikha's memoir of her teenage years, Major/Minor, itself a marvellous book. The author, who is the daughter of renowned Franco-Israeli painter Avigdor Arikha, and also Samuel Beckett's goddaughter, has written a beautiful, haunting novel that goes to the heart of questions of identity and belonging.
The interlinked narratives, voices in counterpoint, harmonise and diverge as Hannah reflects on her own family tragedy and debunks, through her investigation, some of Flora's articles of faith. Richly drawn characters, gorgeous language and the way it folds history delicately within the story of an individual life.
Where to Find Me, the fifth book by Alba Arikha, is the fascinating story of the lives of two women who are destined to become far more important to each other than they could ever have imagined, as well as of the intersecting lives of those closest to them.
The story is captivating. She layers chance encounters upon long-grasped secrets and lies; spins mystery and myth out of her characters' clashes with some of the most traumatic history of the 20th century, and explores the legacy of betrayal and tragedy.
Aching and luminous
In a book of many secrets and clandestine activities, the final clue lies in the title. There are traces of poetry and painting - including a meticulous attention to colour in passages describing Paris, Jerusalem and London.