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Cargando... The Illumination: A Novel (edición 2011)por Kevin Brockmeier (Autor)
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What if our wounds emitted a strange light, the intensity of which perfectly matched the pain we felt? Kevin Brockmeier imagines just such an phenomenon in his latest novel, The Illumination, which features people made solitary by sickness and loss yet brought together by a tattered volume of love notes that they pass, sometimes unwittingly, from hand to hand. Brockmeier’s animating idea suffuses this narrative with unexpected moments of beauty. Premios
In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The story is strange - about a world where pain glows with light - and his characters are all troubled and riddled with pain. Their stories are loosely intertwined in a way that reminded me that the world is smaller than we think.
I wish I knew what happened to all these people after the book ended. ( )