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Bezig met laden... Various Pets Alive and Dead (2012)door Marina Lewycka
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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. Well written and the subject matter that tipped me into giving 4 stars. I guess I'm the right age group to enjoy it and the author has thrown enough plot into it to make 3 or 4 books - which I love. Needed to pay attention to follow it all.... Doncaster, communes, miners, economics, short selling, allotments, schools and reunions to name a few. ( ) Doro und Marcus lebten in den 1970er Jahren in einer Hippiekommune in Doncaster. Dort wuchsen ihre Kinder Clara und Serge auf sowie die später adoptierte Oolie Anna. Nun, 35 Jahre später, möchten die beiden plötzlich heiraten. Clara ist Grundschullehrerin und stresst sich mit problematischen Kindern und dem Klassenhamster. Serge ist zum Feind übergelaufen, denn er arbeitet in der Londoner City als Banker, während alle Welt, v.a seine Eltern glauben, er würde in Cambridge in Mathematik promovieren. Oolie Anna lebt noch bei den Eltern, sie hat Down Syndrom. Sie arbeitet und möchte gegen Doros Willen ausziehen. Das Buch ist wirklich witzig. Immer wieder ragt die Vergangenheit in die Gegenwart hinein. Am schönten aber finde ich, wie sich hier jeder die Welt und ihre Bewohner so konstruiert, dass sie ins eigene Welt- und Wertbild passt. Ich fand die Personen super und das Buch höchst vergnüglich zu lesen. Well written and the subject matter that tipped me into giving 4 stars. I guess I'm the right age group to enjoy it and the author has thrown enough plot into it to make 3 or 4 books - which I love. Needed to pay attention to follow it all.... Doncaster, communes, miners, economics, short selling, allotments, schools and reunions to name a few. This novel is full of unhappy characters, many of which are unlikeable. The telling of the story flits between different members of a family, mum and brother and sister and moves between the present and back to the past when the family lived in a commune. I didn't find the novel laugh out loud funny and it was the saddness that dominated it for me. Marina Lewycka usually has a bitter-sweet aspect to her novels and usually I find that the humour wins out but not this time. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Marco and Doro's children have grown up rather different from them: primary schoolteacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms; son Serge is pretending to his parents that is still doing a Maths PhD at Cambridge, while in fact making loadsamoney in the City; third child Oolie Anna, who has Down Syndrome, is desperate to escape home and live on her own. Once the truth starts breaking through, who knows what further secrets will be revealed about any of them? Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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