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Bezig met laden... The Migration (2019)door Helen Marshall
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Finalist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic "A dark fable that somehow feels both timeless and urgently topical. The Migration is heart-wringing and powerful, but over and above that, it's just vivid and immersive and enthralling throughout." --M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts When I was younger I didn't know a thing about death. I thought it meant stillness, a body gone limp. A marionette with its strings cut. Death was like a long vacation--a going away. Not this. Storms and flooding are worsening around the world, and a mysterious immune disorder has begun to afflict the young. Sophie Perella is about to begin her senior year of high school in Toronto when her little sister, Kira, is diagnosed. Their parents' marriage falters under the strain, and Sophie's mother takes the girls to Oxford, England, to live with their Aunt Irene. An Oxford University professor and historical epidemiologist obsessed with relics of the Black Death, Irene works with a Centre that specializes in treating people with the illness. She is a friend to Sophie, and offers a window into a strange and ancient history of human plague and recovery. Sophie just wants to understand what's happening now; but as mortality rates climb, and reports emerge of bodily tremors in the deceased, it becomes clear there is nothing normal about this condition--and that the dead aren't staying dead. When Kira succumbs, Sophie faces an unimaginable choice: let go of the sister she knows, or take action to embrace something terrifying and new. Tender and chilling, unsettling and hopeful, The Migration is a story of a young woman's dawning awareness of mortality and the power of the human heart to thrive in cataclysmic circumstances. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The basic plot of this book is - “... people with J12 are dying-but when they do, biologically, the bodies keep going, they keep—“. “Changing.” It’s an intellectual ‘zombie’ story, with climate change as a part of the tale. And it’s well written and kind of deep! For 150 pages or so. Then, right past the halfway point, toward the end of part two, the ‘change’ happens, and the book goes ka-thunk. Even with the biological explanation given on these pages, I call BS to the whole 'nymph' development. Total BS. All the good will that the author had bought in me went flying out the door. Really, nymphs? C'mon...
p.s. - I LOVED reading “The Paper Bag Princess” to my daughter when she was young! Special to see it mentioned in here!
“Sometimes memory is a noose. It loops back on itself, pulling tight round your throat.” ( )