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Bezig met laden... If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (editie 2003)door Jon McGregor
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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. Der Tag, an dem nichts Bemerkenswertes geschieht, beginnt wie jeder andere. Es ist der letzte des Sommers in einer namenlosen Straße, irgendwo in England: Menschen voller unbekannter Geschichten, uneingestandener Liebe und dunkler Geheimnisse erwachen. Ein junger Mann beobachtet sie alle, er würde sie gern kennen, das Mädchen, das er nicht anzusprechen wagt, das alte Ehepaar, die spielenden Kinder, aber er kennt noch nicht einmal den Namen seines Nachbarn. Doch am Ende dieser bewegenden Liebeserklärung an den Alltag steht ein schrecklicher Unfall. Drei Jahre später erinnert sich eine schwangere Frau an diesen Tag und erfährt etwas, das ihr Leben verändern wird. Two story lines: the doings of residents of a street over the course of one day, with hints that something is going happen that will affect all of them; and a young woman, three years later, a looming crisis, a new person in her life, and her problems with her dysfunctional parents. We gradually learn about the avenue denizens, all of whose stories could be their own novel. Maybe that's part of the point. One of the characters I found most poignant says “…if nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?” It's an interesting structure that created great tension, both what's going to happen to this girl and what happened that day? We know it isn't something good. I don't usually care about language and rarely am touched by poetic descriptions, but I liked the way he talked about the city and its sounds. I liked it a lot although I really disliked the girl at the center of the story. The twist I thought was coming... well, I was wrong about that, and I was kind of disappointed with the ending only because it seemed pretty unlikely. But there was an inevitability about it that I respect. The story is about one day in the lives of a neighborhood in England. We are at first introduced to that day through what happens in the lives of each of the neighbors. Then the time slips back and back and then forward again, filling in the blanks, letting us know why each person is doing what she is doing. There is a young woman at the center of the story, and I did come to care a bit more about what happens to her as a result of the incident that affects everyone in the area. However, we don't get to know most of the characters by name. It's as if this could be any neighborhood, any time. A bit of an adventure in writing and reading, and a way to appreciate what is both remarkable and what is not. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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'This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening, an invocation of the life of the city, is strongly reminiscent of Auden's Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society... An assured debut' Erica Wagner, The Times. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows... A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable and horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it, not even meriting a mention on the local news, means that those who witness it will be altered for ever. Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS is an astonishing debut. 'The work of a burning new talent ... Jon MacGregor writes like a lyrical angel' Daily Mail Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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