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Bezig met laden... Vienna (2005)door Eva Menasse
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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. Vienna is Austrian author Eva Menasse‘s first novel. Plot: Vienna tells the story of a Viennese (half-) Jewish family from the beginning of the 20th century to today. It does so through various anecdotes. The book focusses mostly on the father and the grandfather of the family, chronicling their way through the second world war and how they build their life up again afterwards. I liked Vienna. It’s well written, with a great sense of humour and it’s so perfectly Viennese, it was a joy to read. Read more about it at my blog: http://kalafudra.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/vienna-eva-menasse/ geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From this tale's very beginning--the birth of the narrator's father in the middle of a bridge party--the reader is plunged headlong into a novel crowded with voices, characters, tragedy, and joy. The disintegration of history and identity in the 20th century is seen through the adventures of one family--half-Jewish Viennese, split apart by the Nazi invasion and sent out into the world. Dispensing with linear narrative, the story loops forwards and back to follow each member on their winding course. Their experiences encompass fraudsters, footballers, fools, and fur coats as the narrative moves from Austria to London and from Canada to the battlefields of Burma. This is a landmark European novel of impressive reach and power whose readership will spread as widely as the family whose story it tells. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Et puis certains passages ou chapitres m'ont totalement barbés comme l'ultime chapitre décrivant l'enterrement du grand-père que j'ai trouvé beaucoup trop long.
Je dois aussi avouer que la lecture ne m'a pas été toujours facile d'une part à cause des phrases retranscrites avec une prononciation ou un vocabulaire typiquement juifs mais aussi à cause de l'ordre non chronologique des épisodes familiaux racontés. ( )