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Paul Park

Autor de Una princesa de Roumania

30+ Obras 2,218 Miembros 68 Reseñas 6 Preferidas

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Incluye los nombres: Paul Park, Paulina Claiborne

Créditos de la imagen: Fantastic Reviews

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Obras de Paul Park

Una princesa de Roumania (2005) 723 copias
The Tourmaline (2006) 239 copias
Soldiers of Paradise (1987) 178 copias
Celestis (1993) 176 copias
The White Tyger (2007) 170 copias
Sugar Rain (1989) 118 copias
The Hidden World (2008) 115 copias
Gospel Of Corax (1861) 100 copias
All Those Vanished Engines (2014) 78 copias
The Sugar Festival (1987) 50 copias
A City Made of Words (2019) 32 copias
The Rose of Sarifal (2012) 26 copias
Three Marys (1819) 19 copias

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This was a strange book. To say the least.

Apparently, many people strongly disliked it; I actually found it interesting, confusing, misleading, meandering... and a good read.

But I fully understand people not liking it. This is a book that requires a certain... reader? attitude? patience? point of view? ...a certain something to enjoy, and is definitely not for everyone.
 
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dcunning11235 | 6 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2023 |
I came to Paul Park's Celestis after reading his more recent Roumania series. Although Roumania is portal fantasy and Celestis is exoplanetary science fiction, they share a great deal in style and content--and neither sits placidly within its genre.

Park has clearly worked out a terrestrial future for background to this book, but Celestis is the site of the tale, and Earth is far away. Readers get little exposure to it, except via fragmentary memories and remarks of the diplomat Simon, who is part of the most recent (and possibly last) cohort of terrestrial emigrants. There is a subjugated species of indigenous humanoids, and another native race acknowledged to be more intelligent than humans but now largely exterminated after generations of human settlement and conflict.

Reviewers are generally quick to remark the political dimensions of this novel, but I think it is far more than a parable of colonialist decline. The religious features are conspicuous, with Christianity figuring notably in the cultivated mentality of the semi-protagonist Katharine, who is an assimilated aboriginal. (I suspect that her name is deliberately spelled to evoke "Cathar" i.e. Albigensian heresy.) The priest Martin Cohen (another allusive moniker) is a key character, if not exactly an admirable one. The differences in the native sensorium create an explicit multiplication of experiential worlds connected by symbols.

Despite its large themes, the book's action takes place on a very personal level. There is a fair amount of sex and violence, all of it suitably disturbing and difficult. Almost every interaction is fraught with misunderstanding, much of it willful. I was less than twenty pages from the end, and I said to myself, "This can't end well." Indeed, while a screen adaptation might superficially present the final tableau as "happy," any attentive reader should be left with a profound uneasiness. Questions of "fact" about events in the story may prove insoluble, not least because of irreconcilable perspectives, and the ending throws this feature into almost painful relief.
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paradoxosalpha | 7 reseñas más. | Apr 7, 2023 |
 
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freixas | 23 reseñas más. | Mar 31, 2023 |
Imperialist HUmans find a planet to sustain life after the Earth is all used up. Two Aboriginal races live there and the humans genocide one of the races, and force the other to take a medication that limits their senses; to enslave them. A good story for a misanthropa like myself, but not for a misandrist like myself.
 
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burritapal | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 23, 2022 |

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