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Bezig met laden... The Land Across (2013)door Gene Wolfe
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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. I went in with no expectations. It has the same distance/holding the reader at arm's length as ''Peace" but it's very different. It feels like a gripping spy novel, though it's not really that. I am grateful Wolfe tied together loose ends and didn't leave me adrift at sea. There are still some mysteries, and it would probably benefit from a rereading, but I still feel satisfied. I enjoyed it. I think Elijah should read it. ( ) One of Wolfe's weirder ones. A contemporary fantasy, that begins by recounting the narrator's attempt to get to "the land across the mountains" (which is never named, but obviously in eastern Europe) so he can write the first ever travel guide to it. Once he arrives, he is thrust into a bizarre, Kafka-esqe world of unassailable bureaucracy, combined with all kinds of supernatural beings (vampires, ghosts, etc.). The narrative moves along from one odd episode to another, and makes for a more-or-less satisfactory story, although it isn't helped by the fact that the narrator isn't a very pleasant character. However, I got the feeling that there was more going on here than was obvious at first. Some passages seemed strangely worded, but one thing that's consistent about Wolfe is that every word is carefully chosen. So, I can't say I loved this one, but I'm putting it on my "read-again" shelf, because I think (or at least hope) that there's a mystery to be teased out with a more careful going-over. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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