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Bezig met laden... Walk the Vanished Earth (editie 2022)door Erin Swan (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWalk the Vanished Earth: A Novel door Erin Swan
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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. http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2023/09/review-of-walk-vanished-earth-by-erin.h... ( ) I literally just finished this book five minutes ago and I'm still processing everything. I'm not sure if I can really discuss it without spoilers but I'll try...so here goes. A prophetic dream haunts several generations of this family and force various members to make (heartwrenching? crazy? sad? traumatic?) decisions that spur them ultimately (and 200 years later) toward the revelatory meaning of the dream. Yeah, that about sums it up. But it's also about climate crisis, familial wounds, healing those familial wounds, and how sometimes old hurts can be soothed...or not. Gods, there is a lot packed into this story. I loved it, I really did, but I'm trying to come to terms with it all. It's left open to where, if you're a pessimist, the ending is sad. If you're an optimist, there is hope in the ending. Really trying to write how I see things happening beyond what was written in the book because I'm leaning towards the optimism. Read the book. It's a deep, moving, and well crafted story. This was a mish mash of What the Hell. We follow a family for many generations, with prominent themes of child abuse and pedophilia. Climate change (I think) was the theme. I think I would have enjoyed the book more had it been packaged as generational mental illness and the long terms effects on a family rather than a science fiction story. And the bit on Mars, just plain filler to make up the page count. This book reminded me quite a lot of [b:Thrust|59089701|Thrust|Lidia Yuknavitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1637602298l/59089701._SY75_.jpg|93175111] by Lidia Yuknavitch. Like Thrust, it's perspective moves across time, skipping between characters, and there is a dream-like quality to both the book's construction and its prose. The result, for me, wasn't quite as rapturous and mind-blowing, but it was still quite enjoyable and thought-provoking. Recommended. Definitely one of my new favorite books. This story jumps back and forth over 300 years starting in the 1873 in America and ending in 2073 on the surface of Mars. The story is about a family and the gradual devastation of the planet due to climate change. The characters were wonderfully built and I felt very vested in their stories. The world building definitely struck close to home (I'm from Louisiana) with part of the story taking place in the "floating city" that was built in New Orleans after catastrophic flooding destroys the city. Overall an intriguing yet dark look at our world and how it may survive the future if theories of climate change come to pass. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"The year is 1873, and a buffalo hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains. The year is 2024 and, after a series of devastating storms, an engineer named Paul has left behind his suburban existence to build a floating city above the drowned streets that were once New Orleans. The year is 2073, and Moon has heard only stories of the blue planet-Earth, as they once called it, now succumbed entirely to water. A sweeping family epic, told over seven generations as America changes and so does its dream, Walk the Vanished Earth is a novel that explores ancestry, legacy, motherhood, the trauma we inherit, and the power of connection in the face of our planet's imminent collapse"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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