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Bezig met laden... Perladoor Carolina De Robertis
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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. One day, Perla arrives home to find a strange man in her parents' living room, with no sign of how he entered. The man is soaked and oozes water all the time. A growing bond develops between the two as their back stories are told via flashbacks: The stranger is one of the “disappeared”, a victim of Argentina's Dirty War, speaks of his horrendous torture and his lost family. Meanwhile, Perla remembers her childhood, her strong relationship with her Papa and odd relationship with her mother, and her recent estrangement from her writer boyfriend. This was a truly devastating, powerful book, set in Buenos Aires at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It's also, at times, a little too pretentious; I had to roll my eyes more than once at some excessively florid piece of description. But when you sweep aside the pseudo-philosophical cruft, what's left is brilliant. It has elements of a horror story, with a ghostly visitor arriving at Perla's home and showing her (or the reader at least) something of the nightmare of the torture chambers of the military regime. I honestly cried about the fate of this ghost and his love, Gloria; I was also relieved that Perla's own ending was what it was, because I don't think I could have taken much more tragedy. So. This is clearly a novel that deals with the aftermath of Argentina's military dictatorship, and in particular with those people who were taken from their "subversive" parents (who, of course, were killed) as babies and awarded to various members of the regime. Reaching adulthood, though, she gravitates to the "subversive" type, with her boyfriend of four years (Gabriel) being a researcher into the desaparecidos seven years her senior. The other thing about this novel is how beautifully it evokes Buenos Aires. I fell asleep on Friday night after reading the first four chapters and I dreamed about Buenos Aires. I remember commenting on Carolina de Robertis's wonderful depictions of place in The Invisible Mountain, and it's the same here. Of course there's a kind of contradiction between the romanticised modern city and the dark past whose presence still lingers, but I still really liked it. Four stars then, because much as I loved this book, I can't bring myself to give five stars to something with such pretentious tangents. I do think her previous book was just a bit better; more happened, for a start, so there was less space for pretension. Still, once you've read that (and I found it way easier to get access to, anyway – I had to resort to buying Perla in paperback!), this is an adequate follow-up. Here's hoping Carolina de Robertis has a third book out before too long. Sempre la pessima usanza italiana di cambiare i titoli con altri che, come in questo caso non c'entrano con la storia. Il titolo originale è il nome della protagonista "Perla", una ragazza coi capelli NERI!!!!! Comunque è un libro veramente bello. Molto ben descritto il percorso psicologico di Perla dalla negazione all'accettazione in tutte le sue sfumature e i suoi passaggi. A very accomplished work - not a novel to be read, but rather a prose poem to be devoured - certainly not an easy read for the torture and pain described in poetic detail were shattering - yet the beauty and heroic strength of the main character kept the story from being impossible to get through - a story of history and murder and torture yet also of awakening and courage to face the truth and love - This is a story to remember and one that sheds light on a terrifically dark time in Argentina's history - I loved De Robertis' other book, the Invisible Mountain, and found this to be a worthy successor -
In an artful blend of beauty and horror, De Robertis has made the disappeared visible once again. With that, she has done them - and us - a great service. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article... This ambitious narrative, largely told in flashbacks, is propulsive and emotionally gripping. De Robertis’s lyrical flights are grounded in the fulfillment of the most desperate wishes of disappeared parents and their children, culminating in a wrenching catharsis about rebirth and healing. An elegantly written and affecting meditation on life in the wake of atrocity. Onderscheidingen
Als na het herstel van de democratie in Argentinië de mensenrechtenschendingen bekend worden van de militaire dictatuur van 1976-1983, begint een scholiere zich angstige vragen te stellen over het verleden van haar geliefde vader, een hoge marine-officier. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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