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Cargando... The Girl Giant: A Novel (edición 2012)por Kristen den Hartog
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I enjoyed this book, though there was nothing spectacular about it. I felt pretty neutral about all the characters, including Ruth, but I liked Kristen den Hartog's writing style. Though we read the story through Ruth's first person perspective, we get insights into parts of other characters' lives Ruth couldn't have known. Yet the story flows between these sections of past and present, and made for an enjoyable read. ( ) A fascinating piece of writing, this book by Kristen den Hartog. A review by Lisa Sanders speaks of its "quiet charm," and I cannot but agree. It is quiet, but much happens in its 220 pages. The narrator Ruth, our giant girl, tells her own story in first-person, but also knows the stories of both her parents, all their secrets, hopes, fears. She knows their stories in ways they would have never told her. She is a magical creature, remarkable for her understanding more than for her size. I don't know of another writer able to pull off what den Hartog has done here. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Something good can come from even the most terrifying things. For eve y thing that is taken away, something else is given." Ruth Brennan is a giant, "a rare, organic blunder pressed into a dollhouse world," as she calls herself. Growing up in a small town, where even an ordinary person can't simply fade into the background, there is no hiding the fact that Ruth is different: she can see it in the eyes of everyone around her, even her own parents. James and Elspeth Brennan are emotionally at sea, struggling with the devastation wrought on their lives by World War II and with their unspoken terror that the daughter they love may, like so much else, one day be taken away from them. But fate works in strange ways, and Ruth finds that for all the things that go unsaid around her, she is nonetheless able to see deeply into the secret hearts of others--their past traumas, their present fears, and the people they might become, if only they have courage enough. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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