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Bezig met laden... Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discoverydoor Linda Murphy Marshall
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After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents' house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past--to "translate" her memories and her life. In the process, she sees things with new eyes. All of her parents' things, everything having to do with their cherished hobbies, are housed in a home that, although it looks impressive from the outside, is anything but impressive inside; in short, she now realizes that much of it --even the house's fancy name--was show. By the time Murphy Marshall is done with Ivy Lodge, she has not only made new discoveries about her past, she has also come to a new understanding of who she is and how she fits into her world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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What a sad life Linda and her siblings had in Ivy Lodge, a big mansion in Missouri.
Linda was never loved, appreciated and never did anything right thanks to her aloof parents. They weren't loving or affectionate. No wonder she grew up with a complex.
Cleaning out her parents house after their death a few years apart from each other, she brings her memories out, mostly sad and maybe a few good ones thrown in. Her family was never close nor she with her two brothers, or her sister.
I'm so grateful that I had such a warm, loving family though I know no family is perfect, as it has been shown by Linda. ( )