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Bezig met laden... A Song for Summer (1997)door Eva Ibbotson
Books Read in 2015 (634) Best School Stories (94) Books about World War II (111) » 4 meer Bezig met laden...
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. Una arrebatadora historia de amor, en una Europa acechada por el fantasma de la Segunda Guerra. Ellen y Marek se conocen en Viena, adonde Ellen ha llegado para cumplir su destino. Entre la oposición de sus pintorescas tías feministas y el creiente antisemitismo, este retrato humano, idílico y a la vez una gran panorámica de la sociedad de aquel tiempo. Usually I like Eve Ibbotson and am a devoted reader. This one just annoys the snot out of me -- it's like she took her other heroines and went as far out to the logical extreme as she could go. Ellen is jsut the perfect pinnacle of the housewifely arts -- and that would be ok, maybe, since she seems to have some spirit when it comes to disciplining children. But she's such a doormat emotionally, so flat and passive and self-sacrificing in all her romantic endeavors that I could not like her, and I liked Marek even less. Well, that was immersive, wonderful, and utterly heart-wrenching. I'm seriously impressed, as I'm reading Ibbotson's works, that while a lot of thematic elements recur, there's no sense of repetition, and I've yet to find a lead character I wasn't able to invest in significantly. That's some fine skill indeed, and this book exemplifies it well. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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On the eve of World War II, a young Englishwoman takes a job as housemother in a boarding school in Austria. She falls in love with the groundsman who is in reality a Czech composer. The arrival of the Nazis leads to drama, the lovers are separated but they will reunite. By the author of Madensky Square. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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More delightful writing, quirky characters, and a fun setting from Ibbotson. This is one of my top three of her romances, for although it shares many of the predictable elements of other books, it feels fresh to me. Who wouldn't love Marek's habit of defenestrating Nazis, for instance? And while I do find parts of the ending frustrating, it's notable that the lovers aren't kept apart by a mere miscommunication. All in all, a satisfying light read. ( )