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Bezig met laden... The Collector Collector: A Novel (origineel 1998; editie 1998)door Tibor Fischer
WerkdetailsMijn collectie verzamelaars door Tibor Fischer (1998)
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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. I read this novel years ago when it was first published. I was hoping it would make more sense this time around...it didn't. The characters are well developed and interesting. However the situations they find themselves in and the stories told by the pottery are far fetched and meaningless. (  ) lynnbyrdcpa | Jan 22, 2021 |  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.) (  ) phredfrancis | Feb 8, 2014 | Narrated by an ancient Sumerian bowl that 'collects' collectors. Witty and unusual. ( ) neilchristie | Dec 30, 2009 | I adored this fun little book about a sentient piece of pottery! It can change its form, effect the world around it, and remembers in excruciating detail every single person who has owned or handled it. Very unusual, totally refreshing and a real delight. (  )1  LisaLynne | Mar 9, 2008 | 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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