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Bezig met laden... The Love We Share Without Knowing (2008)door Christopher Barzak
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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. Each chapter is sort of like it's own short story, though all fairly tightly related to the original story. It's a pretty dark story so if you're looking for a loving, pleasant story, this isn't it. That being said, it's well written and thought provoking. Good for book club discussions. ( ) This book is hard to describe. Most of the subject matter is what you might call depressing, but it's a beautiful depression. It is supposed to be a novel, but each chapter could be a short story in itself. There main character in each chapter is connected to other characters in other chapters, but the connections feel distant. People seem to be missing each other. In a magical, distant way. Oh, I give up. Just read the book! This novel was nominated for both Nebula and Locus awards for best novel. However, it is clearly not a SF and only marginally a fantasy. The book itself states it is a “psychological fiction”. I’d add magical realism. The novel consists of a score of short stories. They are all set in modern Japan and a group of Americans and Japanese. Each story has own main character(s) but the following ones uses earlier ones as a background and/or minor characters. This is a very nice primer to some aspects of Japanese culture and how it is viewed by English-language teachers from the US. The list of topics ranges from suicide to homosexuality to inability to let go to, as the title suggests ‘The Love We Share Without Knowing’. It is a very nice literary fiction, albeit not the type I usually read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man's life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives--and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong. From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection--uncovering the love we share without knowing. Exquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak's artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find--or lose--themselves in an often incomprehensible world. 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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