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Bezig met laden... Sex and Stravinsky (2010)door Barbara Trapido
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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 didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to, but I think it is more me and less the book this time. I liked the first chapter, then lost my ability to concentrate. ( ) Barbara Trapido is a wonderful writer, clever, amusing and romantic - dealing with the 'big' topics in an apparently light, but nuanced and sophisticated way. This novel, as you might expect, takes an operatic theme - and perhaps that's where I wasn't as convinced as I have been by her other novels. She sets up a complex plot, suitable for a comic opera, and then resolves it, slotting relationships together or apart, with recurring characters and themes; walk on roles (often the most intensely realised) and a set of fabulous locations, costumes, sets and casts. I think at times the necessities of the plot (I found myself searching back for links or glimpses a number of times) drive and restrict the narrative a bit too much. But this is carping - I'd certainly recommend it, just not as the place to start with Trapido. One of the best books I’ve read this year, T was strangely reluctant to begin Sex & Stravinsky but the pleasure deferred became a pleasure hugely enhanced when I sampled Trapido’s champagne prose, elegant and sparkling. A stylish romantic fantasy, the book straddles two continents with the tale of Hattie, delicate and exquisite, and her husband Herman, a South African couple, and their unspeakably awful adolescent daughter Cat; in England we have the indefatigably capable Amazon Caroline, her South African-born husband Josh, and Zoe, their balletomane teenage daughter. They come together in a magical but unlikely Midsummer Night’s Dream scenario except the place is Durban not an Athenian forest, and instead of Oberon and Titania we have Hattie and Josh. Dazzling and exuberant, this book is a treat.
The time is 1995, but everybody has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books - that's when she can carve out the space between her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together- a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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