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Bezig met laden... No en ikdoor Delphine de Vigan
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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. A slightly strange book, in the way that French films are often odd to English sensibilities. The narrator is a highly intelligent, rather isolated high school student in Paris. Her mother is very deeply depressed following the death in infancy several years ago of her younger daughter. Her father desperately tries to hold things together. Lou, the narrator, befriends a young homeless teeneger, No, partly so she can complete a school assignment on homelessness. As their friendship deepens, the family beome implicated too. Is this then a feel-good novel in which everyone lives happily ever after? You'll have to read it to find out. It's touching, enlightening, bittersweet. ( ) In this very generous and compassionate novel, Vigan explores homelessness through the unlikely friendship of two teenage girls, No, broken living on the streets and Lou, living at home, both abandoned by their mothers, either physically or emotionally. Lou, precocious and belonging to no social sphere, is able to reach out to No and bridge those unspoken barriers that exist in our many complicated social layers. With Lucas, also abandoned by this mother and living alone, they try to build their unique, safe haven despite grown-ups and rules. It is an experiment of sorts but one that has too many challenges - from the material, to the emotional and psychological, nothing is as linear as we would wish and little Lou has to come to this conclusion through experience rather than through books. Touching and hopeful, this is a heart-warming coming of age story with difficult lessons. I didn't love the translation - very British, I could easily read the French through the words. Maybe a good adaptation for a European audience, less so for an American one. Lou Bertignac es una adolescente de trece años con un cociente intelectual de 160 que tiene muchas preguntas en la cabeza, observa a la gente, colecciona palabras y devora las enciclopedias. En su casa las cosas no marchan bien: su madre sufre una depresión tras la muerte de su bebé y su padre vive impotente ante la situación. Además, en clase sus compañeros la tratan como a una chalada. Lou, a pesar de lo brillante que es, se siente aislada y se inventa teorías con las que hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.
The book starts slowly, the observations veering from the banal to the insightful. Ever since The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a similar crossover novel from the young adult market, the naive observation of the grown-up world can seem contrived. Yet the second half of this novel is a thing of poetic beauty. As No descends into alcoholic despair, all parties break trust with each other to do the right thing. You could meditate on some of Lou’s hard-won wisdom as she is forced to change. She starts out absolute and ends in nuance. It is, as any parent has said to a child on forcing him or her to tip the crab out of the bucket, more complicated than it looks at first. The book creaks a little at the start. But once the plot gets going, de Vigan’s account skirts the clichés of foundling literature with economy and grace..... ....Lou’s voice is both distinctive and direct, and the novel’s unshowy negotiation of a complex issue should give readers of all ages something to consider. Well-structured, with moments of tenderness and truth about family and home, inadequate parents and neglected children, No and Me is honest (as revealing and insightful about Lou and home life as it is about No and homelessness) but also at least partially reassuring. Lou's "large-scale experiment against fate" might not go quite according to plan, but De Vigan shows that things really can change, albeit not always in the ways we've anticipated, and not always in ways we can control. Heeft de bewerkingPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.92Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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