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Bezig met laden... Mister N (editie 2022)door Najwá Barakāt (Auteur), Luke Leafgren (Vertaler)
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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. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Read it twice now. Meticulous detailing without giving you the unnecessary. Details matter for the main character and they should for you. Don't want to give anything away, but it's a great read.Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Surreal and fascinating, with an authorial voice that asks us to question its reliability while always seeming to tunnel inward. The real and the imagined jostle elbows as the titular Mr N shares his litany of complaints and half-remembered traumas. More disorienting than funny, this slim novel offers challenging questions about how experience molds identity and the responsibilities we have to one another. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I really enjoyed reading this book despite being thoroughly confused for most of the story. I had to take a break after a particularly rough moment in the timeline, but when I came back to it it turned out I'd been through the hardest of the content already. The timeline confusion was a deliberate construct, and it was done very well and to good effect, but the whole story was disorientingly light considering how disturbing the actual content was. It worked in the end, as really the whole point of the story, and made me really want to read an actual history of the region and the violence. I wish the book had included some kind of historical note or context at the end, or reference books to move to if readers wanted more information, but that's not the point of the story and not the job of the author. Worth reading; hard to process.Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Ooof, I just couldn't get into this book. It took me forever to finish just because I never felt like picking it up and when I did I would barely read 2 or 3 pages before giving up. It is a confusing tale of mental illness that jumps continuously through time and space without explanation and you don't truely understand what's going on until the epilogue. There were some striking scenes and satisfactorily surprising revelations, but overall I did not enjoy the writing and I had no interest in following the lives of the characters. Looking at other reviews many people seemed to find the story compelling and enjoyed the journey the author took you on, but for me I wish I had spent the time with a different book. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Mr. N is the ultimate in unreliable narrators, as the story slips through time and in and out of delusions. This makes it hard for the reader to extract an actual story thread, as there are no textual clues beyond the opening lines of the scene to tell you when the action takes place, or whether it's taking place in reality at all. However, Barakāt does an admirable job of pulling it together to give the reader something cohesive to hold on to at the end. In between, we get a glimpse of war-torn Lebanon and the plight of its people.This is not the book for a reader looking for a linear narrative. However, a reader who can decipher Mister N's train of thought will be rewarded by the quality of the writing and the resolution, such as it is. FTC Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for this review. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel--he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: there is desperate poverty, the ever-present threat of violence, and masses of Syrian refugees planning to reach Europe via a dangerous sea passage. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man like Mister N., whose life and memories have become scattered, whose family regards him as an embarrassment, and whose next-door neighbours torment him with their noise, dinner invitations, and inconvenient suicides. Comical and tragic by turns, his misadventures climax in the arrival in what Mister N. had supposed to be his "real life" of a character from one of his early novels--a vicious militiaman and torturer. Now, does the old writer need to arm himself . . . or just seek psychiatric help? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)892.737Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 2000–LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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