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Bezig met laden... Cities of Refugedoor Michael Helm
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Helm's novel begins with a powerful and wrenching scene of violence that catches the reader by surprise as much as it does the victim, a young woman named Kim Lystrander. Kim's assault on a dark Toronto side street has repurcussions far beyond her own trauma and pulls her deep into a world of ghosts: people living in the country illegally, her dying mother, and her wayward, guilt-stricken father Harold, a historian of Latin America whose hazy past becomes for Kim an obsession. Helm's prose is layered and searching and profoundly intellectual, and the moral imperative at work here is urgent and affecting. But what's often missing is drama, action that could engage the reader on a visceral level. In the end, this is a book that is more easily admired than enjoyed and upon reaching the end, one does not know if it was worth the effort. Long-listed for the 2010 Giller Prize and short-listed for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. ( ) Michael Helm's "Cities Of Refuge", is not a book I couldn't put down. Why? It made me feel uneducated. Why? Because I didn't get it. Although Mr. Helm's writing is beautiful and complex and he really delves into the lives of his characters, the story just didn't come together for me. A lot of issues were dealt with: violence/trauma/healing, secrets, unresolved guilt, immigration,extended disfunctional families, etc...I felt there was too much going on, too many issues. The end of the story fell flat and left me wondering what it was I just read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:In Cities of Refuge, a single act of violence resonates through several lives, connecting closeby fears to distant political terrors. At the storyâ??s center is the complex, intensely charged relationship between a twenty-eight-year-old woman and the father who abandoned her when she was young. One summer night on a side street in downtown Toronto, Kim Lystrander is attacked by a stranger. Thrown deep into turmoil, in the weeks and months that follow, she confronts her fear by returning to the night, in writing, searching for harbingers of the incident and clues to the identity of her assailant. The attack also torments Kim's father, Harold, a historian of Latin America. As he investigates the crime on his own, the darkest hours from his past revisit him, and he gradually begins to unravel. Entwined in their stories are Kimâ??s ailing mother, Marian; Father André Rowe, whose mission to guide others involves him in a decision with troubling consequences; Rodrigo Cantero, a young Colombian man living illegally in the city; and Rosemary Yates, a woman whose faith-based belief in the duty to give asylum to any who seek it, even those judged guilty, draws Harold to her, before a fateful choice changes the future for them all. Cities of Refuge is a novel of profound moral tension and luminous prose. It weaves a web of incrimination and inquiry, in which mysteries live within mysteries, and stories within stories, and the power to save or condemn rests in the forces of history and in the realm of our deepest l Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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