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Cargando... All That Is Solid Melts into Air: A Novel (edición 2014)por Darragh McKeon (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really had no idea about the Chernobyl incident and it is scary with everything going on to read about what they did and what happened. Told throw a few characters this novel follows the aftermath of what happened after the nuclear accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl Power Plant. People had no idea what was happening- just that there were signs that things were not quite right; sky was a funny color, animals were acting odd and then there were military trucks giving them mere minutes to pack a bag a person and they were being transported by bus to some unknown city where they had to evacuate to with hardly any information at all. Others were convinced to stay behind and help bury and remove as many traces of the incident as possible but had no idea the harm that was upon them with the amount of radiation that was in the air. Thousands of people were harmed and eventually died from this and that area is still feeling the aftereffects to this day, in that no one or nothing is allowed near it due to the radiation still there. So scary, but a very good read about the event. Something about the writing in this book is utterly compelling. It captures a lot of the alienation and isolation many in the old USSR felt as the modern world began to permeate the day to day life of the citizens. Using the accident at Chernobyl, the author tragically yet beautifully at times works to highlight the utter dysfunction at that point in the federation. I completed the book several months ago and it still lingers. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: "Brilliantly imagined in its harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster and exhilarating in its sweep, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a debut to rattle all the windows and open up the ventricles of the heart. . . . The book is daring, exhilarating, generous and beautifully written." â?? Colum McCann A brilliant and gripping novel set against the tragedy of Chernobyl and the way in which the lives of its survivors were forever changed in its wake. Part historical epic, part love story, it recalls The English Patient in its mix of emotional intimacy and sweeping landscape. Russia, 1986. On a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old prodigy plays his piano silently for fear of disturbing the neighbors. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In a nearby hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work, avoiding his failed marriage. And in a village in Belarus, a teenage boy wakes to a sky of the deepest crimson. Outside, the ears of his neighbor's cattle are dripping blood. Ten miles away, at the Chernobyl Power Plant, something unimaginable has happened. Now their lives will change forever. An end-of-empire novel charting the collapse of the Soviet Union, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a riveting and epic love story by a major new talent. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Among the recent novels I read in the last few years, this is maybe the only one worth a mention by this point of view.
And it's a good novel under many other aspects, too. Plot is well devised and well developed, characters are beliavable and fascinating, the depiction of the terminal years of the USSR is realistic and honest, Chernobyl tragedy and its impact on the lives of normal people are decribed with sobriety and deep empathy at the same time. All in this story is great, lofty, tragic and deeply human, yet never rethoric; no undue enphasis comes to spoil the overall effect.
Maybe the ending is a bit mild. You know what? All that beautiful people full of love deserved a decent epilogue, at least for some of them if not, for the sake of realism, for all of them.
This is a story of human dignity and salvation.
Yes, five stars. This book is worth risking misjudgement on the bright side. ( )