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El hilo azul

por Anne Tyler

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Una novela sobre los lazos familiares construida con el mejor estilo de Anne Tyler (Pulitzer 1989), que muestra lo mejor y lo peor de nosotros mismos. «Lo importante no es saber cuánto amas a alguien, sino quién eres tú cuando estás con esa persona.» Anne Tyler Todas las familias guardan secretos, incluso las que parecen perfectas. Los Whitshank no son una excepción a esa regla, pero ¿quiénes son realmente los Whitshank? Pues una familia de clase media americana afincada en Baltimore desde 1920. A simple vista, parecen un clan unido por el afecto y la solidaridad. Sin embargo, pronto descubriremos que en el retrato que hacen de sí mismos solo aparece una parte de la fotografía. «Era una hermosa tarde amarilla y verde, y soplaba una suave brisa...» Así es como Abby comienza siempre a relatar cómo se enamoró de Red Whitshank. Pero eso fue en julio de 1959, y ahora estamos en pleno siglo XXI. Abby y Red se han hecho mayores, los cuatro hijos que tuvieron son ya adultos y con el transcurso de los años no solo han acumulado momentos de ternura, armonía y felicidad; su historia también esconde celos, decepciones y engaños. Sin embargo, más allá de los silencios, incluso más allá de la muerte, los Whitshank nunca dejan de ser una familia. Basta a veces que una madeja de hilo azul caiga al suelo en un momento clave para saber que no estamos solos... Sucede así, incluso en las familias sencillas, incluso en las imperfectas. El hilo azul es una novela que tiene el poder de emocionar huyendo de tópicos y sentimentalismos. Una obra que reúne todas las cualidades -inteligencia, humor y compasión hacia el ser humano- que han hecho de su autora una de las figuras más amadas y respetadas de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho... «Las novelas de Anne Tyler son una espléndida invitación a pasar un tiempo en esos barrios de Baltimore que ella ha construido casa a casa, palabra a palabra, en su brillante carrera.» Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books «Una grandísima escritora.» The Guardian «Tyler convierte la situación más común en algo profundo y hermoso.» The New York TimesENGLISH DESCRIPTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * The Telegraph * BookPage"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . " This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red's parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor.… (más)
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A leisurely character-driven story that recounts the detailed relationships and lives of the Whitshank family in Baltimore. Nothing spectacular happens, yet it is filled with the ordinary happenings of an ordinary family, that we can all understand and appreciate. I recommend reading this novel slowly, savouring it, instead of a non-stop feast, so that the wonderful characters can take up residence in the mind like friends. A fantastic novel that highlights Tyler’s exceptional writing. ( )
  VivienneR | Mar 26, 2024 |
A slow starter. Divided into different parts that gave back stories to some of the main characters at different stages of their lives. Kirkus: Tyler?s 20th novel (The Beginner?s Goodbye, 2012, etc.) again centers on family life in Baltimore, still a fresh and compelling subject in the hands of this gifted veteran.She opens in 1994, with Red and Abby Whitshank angsting over a phone call from their 19-year-old son, Denny. In a few sharp pages we get the family dynamic: Red can be critical, Abby can be smothering, and Denny reacts to any criticism by dropping out of sight. But as Part 1 unfolds, primarily from 2012 on, we see Denny has a history of wandering in and out of the Whitshank home on Bouton Road just often enough to keep his family guessing about the jobs and relationships he acquires and discards (? ?Boring? seemed to be his favorite word?) while resenting his siblings? assumption that he can?t be relied on. This becomes an increasingly fraught issue after Red has a heart attack and Abby begins to have ?mind skips?; Tyler sensitively depicts the conflicts about how to deal with their aging parents among take-charge Amanda, underappreciated Jeannie and low-key Stem, whose unfailing good nature and designation as heir to Whitshank Construction infuriate Denny. A sudden death sends Tyler back in time to explore the truth behind several oft-recounted Whitshank stories, including the day Abby fell in love with Red and the origins of Junior, the patriarch who built the Bouton Road home in 1936. We see a pattern of scheming to appropriate things that belong to others and of slowly recognizing unglamorous, trying true lovebut that?s only a schematic approximation of the lovely insights Tyler gives us into an ordinary family who, ?like most families...imagined they were special.? They will be special to readers thanks to the extraordinary richness and delicacy with which Tyler limns complex interactions and mixed feelings familiar to us all and yet marvelously particular to the empathetically rendered members of the Whitshank clan.The texture of everyday experience transmuted into art.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Just ok.

Easily readable but ultimately unsatisfying. Secrets are revealed throughout the book and all of them served to make the story less pleasant for me.

I felt sad for all of these people when it ended.
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  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
more of a peering in book than a true story, I enjoyed it but the end was eh. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Not her best. I got halfway through, then accidentally left it on a plane and never bothered getting a replacement.
  skavlanj | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Readers anticipating an easy “domestic” novel will be terrifically surprised...Tyler’s genius as a novelist involves her ability to withhold moral judgment of her characters.....Tyler is in full command of her scenes and her characters, grounding her reader in time and space in every sequence of this tightly written and highly readable novel. .....Breaking with a conventional linear structure, the final and most compelling chapters belong to Abby and relay the series of events that led to her falling in love with Red, a story that exists only in Abby’s memory, told here to the reader. The discoveries in these final pages are likely to force readers to reflect back on the earlier chapters and view them in an entirely new — and much darker — light. Here we see the truth about every love story: It was merely an accident of chance.
 
Readers of any age should have no trouble relating to Abby's complaint that "the trouble with dying ... is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." Her daughter protests, "But, Mom, there is no ending." To which Abby replies, "Well, I know that." And then Tyler adds the unspoken kicker her fans have come to look for: "In theory." We can only hope that Tyler will continue spooling out her colorful Baltimore tales for a long time to come.
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Now 73, Tyler has hinted that this might be her last novel. If so, she may not have ended with a masterpiece, but she has given us plenty of reminders of her lavish strengths: the quiet authority of her prose; the ultimately persuasive belief that a kindly eye is not necessarily a dishonest one; and perhaps above all, the fact that, 50 years after she started, she still gives us a better sense than almost anyone else of what it’s like to be part of a family – which for most of us also means a better sense than almost anyone else of what it’s like to be alive.

And if all that’s not enough to earn a top-table place, then maybe it’s time to rethink the criteria for qualification.
 


Indeed, very little happens in her books. Characters get caught up in repetitive, dead-end conversations which merely fill the gaps, and where silence, existentialist terror and a fear of death continually lingers.

But in this passing of time — where seasons change, flowers wither, then bloom again, people marry, babies are born and the elderly die slowly with dignity — Tyler then weighs in with her own subtle commentary as a narrator who exudes tremendous skill and precision.

It is in these details that she attempts to convey truth, meaning and esthetic beauty. And Tyler’s narrative is a brilliant testament to why the novel still provides an enormously important role in our culture, allowing us to capture the little bits of humanity that somehow seem to bypass us in the real world. ...A Spool of Blue Thread primarily focuses on domestic dreams and disputes, daily ceremonial acts and relationships. Love, loss, and death are about the only certainties the author can guarantee. Family is all we have, Tyler’s prose seems to suggest.
 
Tyler is in the top rank of American writers, and moments in this novel have an affinity with Canada’s Alice Munro too. But what she has that neither Robinson nor Munro possess to the same degree is an irrepressible sense of the comedy beneath even the most melancholy surface – or sometimes peeking just above it – in human affairs.

Tyler is good on irony too....Tyler is sensitive to the tragicomedy of old age and its indignities. Her writing is characterised by an amused, sweeping tolerance that acknowledges imperfection at all ages. ..Tyler writes with witty economy..It takes organised wit to write about human muddle as Tyler does, without once losing our attention or the narrative’s spool of blue thread.
 

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Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny.
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And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his crumpled eyelids and hollowed cheeks and the two deep crevices bracketing his mouth and just his general obtuseness, his stubbornness, his infuriating belief that simple, cold logic could solve all of life's problems, and she would feel unspeakably lucky to have ended up with him. (p. 166)
"There, there," Nora told her. "This will get easier, I promise. God gives us never more than we can handle." Jeannie only cried harder. "Actually, that's not true," Denny said in an informative tone of voice. He was leaning back against the fridge with his arms folded. Nora glanced at him, still smoothing Jeannie's shoulder. "He gives people more than they can handle every day of the year," Denny told her. "Half the world is walking around just... destroyed, most of the time." (p. 175)
And meanwhile Linnie Mae was heading up the walk with her spine very straight and her hat level, all innocent and carefree. Not even a glance backward to find out how he was taking this. Why had he worried for one second about abandoning her at the train station? She would have done just fine without him! She would do just fine anywhere. (p. 337)
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Una novela sobre los lazos familiares construida con el mejor estilo de Anne Tyler (Pulitzer 1989), que muestra lo mejor y lo peor de nosotros mismos. «Lo importante no es saber cuánto amas a alguien, sino quién eres tú cuando estás con esa persona.» Anne Tyler Todas las familias guardan secretos, incluso las que parecen perfectas. Los Whitshank no son una excepción a esa regla, pero ¿quiénes son realmente los Whitshank? Pues una familia de clase media americana afincada en Baltimore desde 1920. A simple vista, parecen un clan unido por el afecto y la solidaridad. Sin embargo, pronto descubriremos que en el retrato que hacen de sí mismos solo aparece una parte de la fotografía. «Era una hermosa tarde amarilla y verde, y soplaba una suave brisa...» Así es como Abby comienza siempre a relatar cómo se enamoró de Red Whitshank. Pero eso fue en julio de 1959, y ahora estamos en pleno siglo XXI. Abby y Red se han hecho mayores, los cuatro hijos que tuvieron son ya adultos y con el transcurso de los años no solo han acumulado momentos de ternura, armonía y felicidad; su historia también esconde celos, decepciones y engaños. Sin embargo, más allá de los silencios, incluso más allá de la muerte, los Whitshank nunca dejan de ser una familia. Basta a veces que una madeja de hilo azul caiga al suelo en un momento clave para saber que no estamos solos... Sucede así, incluso en las familias sencillas, incluso en las imperfectas. El hilo azul es una novela que tiene el poder de emocionar huyendo de tópicos y sentimentalismos. Una obra que reúne todas las cualidades -inteligencia, humor y compasión hacia el ser humano- que han hecho de su autora una de las figuras más amadas y respetadas de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho... «Las novelas de Anne Tyler son una espléndida invitación a pasar un tiempo en esos barrios de Baltimore que ella ha construido casa a casa, palabra a palabra, en su brillante carrera.» Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books «Una grandísima escritora.» The Guardian «Tyler convierte la situación más común en algo profundo y hermoso.» The New York TimesENGLISH DESCRIPTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * The Telegraph * BookPage"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . " This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red's parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor.

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