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Bezig met laden... The collector collector : a novel (origineel 1998; editie 1997)door Tibor Fischer
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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. Rosa , una joven londinense, tasadora de obras de arte en una casa de subastas, sueña con encontrar al hombre ideal. Un día, le encargan que certifique la autenticidad de un cuenco de cerámica que desea comprar Marius , un hombre de negocios poderoso y excéntrico coleccionista. El cuenco ―tan antiguo como la humanidad― posee los cinco sentidos y está dotado de una hilarante capacidad para narrar, entre otras historias, las peripecias que alteran por completo el apartamento de Rosa : la aparición de Nikki , ladrona impenitente y auténtica máquina sexual, a la que protege Balumba , una mujer hercúlea que ha regresado de la muerte para devolverla al buen camino; el desconcierto amoroso de la glotona Lechuga ; varios asesinatos frustrados y un sinfín de aventuras que el cuenco ha vivido a través de los siglos y que no tiene reparos en contar en cuanto Rosa le impone las manos. This was one of those intriguing books that failed to intrigue me. I gave up on it after a while, because it felt like the absurdity just wasn't going to sustain my interest. Sometimes absurdity is enough, but generally I need at least one other thing to hang my interest on. Characters whose problems I care about tend to do it, but I don't recall being enticed that way. Still, Fischer seems well regarded, so I'm fine putting the failure down to me or to the circumstances of my reading. However, I doubt that will be enough, given all there is to read, for me to give the author another try. (Not that I don't welcome some encouragement to the contrary.) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Now in Paperback, The Collector Collector takes a conventional boy-meets-girl story and turns it into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Tibor Fischer's tale is an antique bowl that comes into the possession of a lovelorn, young London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's major convulsions -- revolutions, famines, massacres, wars -- and has survived more than four hundred breakages and three thousand thefts.By investing his bowl with soul, Fischer give us a hilarious, mantel-eye view of depravity and redemption, sex and lust, burglary and archaeology. "A writer gifted with a formidable imagination" (The Washington Post Book World), Fischer takes us on a thrilling ride from the primitive societies of prehistory to the equally primitive society of present-day London. 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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