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Bezig met laden... Precisamos Falar Sobre O Kevin (Em Portugues do Brasil) (origineel 2003; editie 2007)door Lionel Shriver (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWe moeten het even over Kevin hebben door Lionel Shriver (Author) (2003)
  
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 A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil At a time when fiction by women has once again been criticised for its dull domesticity, here is a fierce challenge of a novel by a woman that forces the reader to confront assumptions about love and parenting, about how and why we apportion blame, about crime and punishment, forgiveness and redemption and, perhaps most significantly, about how we can manage when the answer to the question why? is either too complex for human comprehension, or simply non-existent.  The epistolary method Shriver uses, letters to Eva's absent husband, strains belief, yet ultimately that's not what trips us up. It's Eva's relentless negativity that becomes boring and repetitive in the first half of the book, the endless recounting of her loss of svelteness, her loss of freedom.  Maybe there are books to be written about teenage killers and about motherhood, but this discordant and misguided novel isn't one of them.  A little less, however, might have done a lot more for this book. A guilt-stricken Eva Khatchadourian digs into her own history, her son's and the nation's in her search for the responsible party, and her fierceness and honesty sustain the narrative; this is an impressive novel, once you get to the end. Heeft de bewerkingPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Eva never really wanted to be a mother and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklyn. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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