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"The Age of Miracles"? More like: "The Age of Disasters"! Before I get into why I say that, I'll elaborate on what the book is about. First off, it's actually a very well written book. it's told from the point of view of a middle school aged girl and the events in the story take place are told through her perspective. Everything was fine, until the days started to get longer. First it was only by a few minutes everyday, then it escalated to half an hour, then a full hour, then hours, until people who were stuck on the side of the hemisphere facing the Sun found that the suns hostile rays make the outside world totally inhospitable. people were forced to permanently take refuge inside their household as a slight reprieve to escape a heat-related death. The reason I call it "The Age of Disasters" is because of how terribly things spiral out of control. Everyday lives are thrown out of whack as people scramble to reorient themselves into their new reality. I went into the book having almost no prior knowledge about its plot. I thought it would be a lot happier than what it was on account of it having the word "Miracles" in the title. And boy was I wrong. The ending of this book doesn't even come close to the word "bittersweet." It's just plain bitter to me. It doesn't delve too deeply into the fate of humanity, but a 20 year time-skip does show you what becomes of the main character and her family, sans her love interest who she hasn't seen since the suns powerful rays gave him cancer and forced him to move to new mexico for treatment. They promised that they'd keep in touch, and meant it, but due to unknown reasons the letters the main character sent to him were never returned and they never saw one another again. My guess is that the treatment failed and he didn't survive, or maybe they never made it to new mexico at all. This is a great, albeit depressing book. What sets the story apart from more run-of-the-mill high-concept novels is Ms. Walker’s decision to recount the unfolding catastrophe from the perspective of Julia, who is on the verge of turning 12. Her voice turns what might have been just a clever mash-up of disaster epic with sensitive young-adult, coming-of-age story into a genuinely moving tale that mixes the real and surreal, the ordinary and the extraordinary with impressive fluency and flair. “The Age of Miracles” is not without its flaws. There are moments when the spell the author has so assiduously created wobbles, and moments when a made-for-Hollywood slickness seeps into the story. Some minor plot developments feel as if they had been created simply for pacing, and Ms. Walker sometimes seems so determined to use Julia’s circumscribed life as a microcosm of the larger world that the reader has to be reminded that “the slowing” is supposedly a planet-altering phenomenon. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Julia tiene once años y vive una plácida existencia en la soleada California con su familia cuando las noticias informan de algo que cambiará el mundo por completo: es, simplemente, el principio del fin del mundo visto a través de los ojos de una niña. "No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión. No había heridos. No había muertos. Al principio fue una catástrofe casi invisible." La que habla es Julia. Tiene once años y hasta hace muy poco tiempo solo nos habría contado cosas del colegio, de sus padres, de la complicidad con su única amiga, de ese chico, Seth, que le provoca un hormigueo especial. Pero hoy tiene algo diferente que decirnos. Hoy, ella y su familia se han despertado con una alarmante noticia: la rotación de la tierra de pronto se ha ralentizado, y los días y las noches han empezado a alargarse. Pronto los relojes no servirán de nada. El mundo está cambiando, y aunque ni ella ni nadie saben lo que va a pasar a partir de ahora, todos intuyen que el futuro será distinto. Extraño. Perturbador. Aceptar la realidad y aferrarse a la vida, tal cual Julia la conoce, es la única manera de sobrevivir. A través de la voz inocente de una niña que lucha por su felicidad, Karen Thompson Walker consigue sumergirnos en ese presente sin futuro, inquietante y extrañamente cotidiano, y nos hace cómplices de sus anhelos y de sus miedos, de sus preguntas y de sus esperanzas. "La novela que ha revolucionado el panorama editorial internacional." The Guardian. "Un impactante debut literario. Julia es una narradora perfecta. Una historia tan perturbadora como plausible." Publishers Weekly. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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