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Bezig met laden... Life is Good (2016)door Alex Capus
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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. Max’s wife has taken a job in Paris and she will be gone four of the seven days of the week. Their boys, all teenagers, are generally self-sufficient, so Max, who is an author and also runs a local pub, is left to himself and his own thoughts. We spend those first four days (of his wife’s new job) with Max as he tells us about his wife, his boys, and stories of the pub and its many patrons (quirky and otherwise) and life in general. No matter what he is talking about, there seems to be an underlying love of life itself, and a fondness for all manner of humanity with it being at all saccharine. I’ve read all of Alex Capus’ fiction that is available in English and, while this novel will not unseat my favorite, which is still [Leon and Louise] , I enjoyed this book immensely. There is something about Capus’s stories—the way he sees people—I thought it might be empathy, and that’s there...but his translator, John Brownjohn,puts it this way: "…I think ‘humanity’ is a keyword in Capus’ writing. He always gives one a sympathetic insight into the essential humanity of his characters, from the homesick German shipbuilders in [A Matter of Time] to the young lovers in [Léon and Louise] to the youthful bank robbers in [Almost Like Spring] or the three protagonists in his latest novel [A Price to Pay] …." Translating Alex Capus: An Interview with John Brownjohn by Daniel Hahn geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Max has been married to Tina for twenty-five years. She is the love of his life, but now he must come to terms with the fact that she is to spend a year away on a work assignment--away, for the first time, from their home, their children and their life together. Her absence leaves him feeling like an Odysseus in reverse: he stays put whilehis Penelope goes out into the world. Max, alone with his three teenage sons for the first time, is left contemplating life and the daily routine of the little bar of which he is the proprietor. As he spends more time with the regulars their problems begin to become his own. This new novel by Alex Capus is a hymn to trust, friendship and life's small pleasures. Told with his trademark humor, Life is Good is a novel about finding contentment in rootedness as the world speeds up. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A lot of them are really fun, that what makes you keep reading. The least fun are the ones that the storyteller just imagines for himself. Which is weird. Normally real life should not be more absurd than the imagination, but then he IS swiss after all.
What really bugs me about "belletristik" is that at the end, I have no idea what I just read and why. ( )