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Bezig met laden... The Translation of the Bonesdoor Francesca Kay
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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.   ) Helenliz | Sep 12, 2019 |   )2  GaylaBassham | May 27, 2018 |  ) HelenBaker | Dec 27, 2016 | ) gayla.bassham | Nov 7, 2016 | Kay's main character,Mary Margaret (her name is no mistake I think) devout and childlike in her reasoning, experiences a miracle: Jesus speaks to her! She is cleaning the statuary in church at the moment, and she falls, breaking her arm. This event has repercussions large and small for all the characters. Much is covered in this slim book, perhaps too much to give some of the issues enough of a look. Kay looks at motherhood, the mother-child bond,the need to belong and self-acceptance. Don't look for the answers here, though. However, often books are meant to present us with the issues. We can decide what the author means or what it means to us and it can mean something very different to another reader. That is the beauty of books. ( ) mmignano11 | Oct 16, 2012 |
 Kay won the Orange Award for New Writers for her first novel, An Equal Stillness. Her writing is so rich, you nearly worry for your waistline. But the richness isn’t vanity, and her characters’ daydreams (while cleaning mussels or watching soldiers buying round-trip train tickets) are particularly lovely. Her description of a child’s rugby match nearly breaks your heart. And just as the bleeding statue is never explained, Kay doesn’t try to offer much that’s new on the rationality of faith, its role in grief, and God’s protection (or lack thereof), although she reminds us that, believers or otherwise, we are all united in our longing for answers. Lonely souls, notably mothers and children in a diverse community, are scrutinized by a noted young British writer in her first U.S. publication...This fills many pages of her short, Barbara Pym–flavored tragedy and generates a sense of limbo between the two turning points, but the quality of the prose, the emotional resonance and restrained mystery will satisfy readers unperturbed by limited plot development. Poignancy, lyricism and elegant spiritual debate characterize this impressive if slender novel. The Translation of the Bones, Francesca Kay’s second novel, is a well-tempered exploration of the haphazard, the religious and the mad....Kay explores these women’s inner lives in beautifully musical sentences with carefully judged rhythms, sometimes short, plain and verbless: “Thunder almost. Swans and wind”, when Fidelma is looking out of her tower block window. Through Mary-Margaret’s actions and their effects on others, Kay lays out a moving consideration of devotion and loss. Late in the novel, she evokes Luke 23:29: “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bear, and the breasts that never gave suck. For if the end of loving is sorrow beyond bearing, is it not better from the first to forswear love?” Each character has an answer to that question, and it bears on their differing relationships with their faith: one of comfort, one of conflict, one of refuge. In a time of crisis, they must somehow find a way to believe that suffering can never outweigh love. Prijzen
Volunteering at the local church, Mary-Margaret, a dull and overweight girl who nearly everyone disregards, has a profound experience while cleaning a statue of Jesus and becomes obsessed with fulfilling what she believes to be sacred duties while religious fervor spreads throughout her community. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.65)
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