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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. Neil Jordan is a man of many talents - director of fantastic films such as The Crying Game and Mona Lisa as well as a successful novelist. I really enjoyed Shade, his last novel published in 2005 so I'd been eagerly anticipating the appearance of Mistaken. Mistaken begins with the funeral of Gerald Spain, once a successful author, who died suddenly in his mid fifties. Our narrator, Kevin Thunder, was frequently mistaken for Gerald in his younger days, given their strong ressemblance. Physically similar, the two men come from contrasting backgrounds, Kevin hails from Dublin's Northside, an only child whose home is also a boarding house; Gerald comes from the more affluent Southside, Palmerston Park. As Kevin's story unfolds he gradually realises that he has a doppleganger out there, a situation which can have both pros and cons. The boys move to and fro, with chance encounters, mistaken identities in a type of macabre dance. Kevin envies Gerald's money and social class and feels like a shadow-being, perhaps some sort of vampire feeding off his double's apparent glamour. It's quite appropriate then that Kevin lives next door to the house where Bram Stoker spent his childhood. The notion of a partial existence, of a life half lived, of regrets is echoed in the presence of a shadowy figure who seems to haunt Kevin - is this a figment of his imagination or a real threat?Mistaken is an intense novel which requires the full concentration of the reader. Even though it crosses time and continents, it remains a Dublin novel, with many chapter titles referring to different locations in the city. It's a novel about loss and regret which makes you wonder about what other lives you might have led, given a second chance. It's a very atmospheric and evocative read and one which I highly recommend. ( ) Poor enough novel I thought. Good idea, but nothing happened. I got bored with the repitition, maybe that was a literary device like Beckett, and I missed it, but it didn't work for me. Dreary and boring. And the geographical inaccuracies really got on my nerves. I live in Dublin and some of the routes he takes just don't make any sense, ah well, not one for me. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.' Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the more refined spaces of Palmerston Park. Though divided, like the city itself, by background and class, they shared the same smell, the same looks, and perhaps, as he comes to realize, the same soul. They exchange identities when it suits them, as their lives take them to England and America, and find that taking on another's personality can lead to darker places than either had imagined. Neil Jordan's long-awaited new novel is an extraordinary achievement - a comedy of manners at the same time as a Gothic tragedy, a thriller and an elegy. It offers imaginative entertainment of the highest order. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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