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Cargando... Flesh and bone and water (edición 2018)por Luiza Sauma
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is just a bit meh. All middle aged and middle class and complacently so. Andre lives in London, with his wife & 2 daughters when a letter arrives from his native Brazil that turns his head. It is from his former maid, and he had a relationship with her when in Brazil as a teenager. We hear about the summer he turned 18 in is memory and his relationships with the world around him. It is all told very uncritically - at no point does he wonder about the fate of the black maids that do everything for his family and the families of his friends. He is annoying and self absorbed, but then I suppose most 17/18 year olds are. He does very little growing up in the course of the book, and shows little sign of it as an adult either. Not sure it has much to recommend it apart from the beautiful scenery. All about a Brazilian boy and his journey into adulthood - his close family - how he lost his mother tragically in an accident - and their intricate, unusual bonds. Also about parts of Brazil and his move to Europe both to study and work. Gives some interesting insights into past practices in Brazil. What I loved about this novel was how it made Brazil come alive. The author did a great job of describing the culture, the people, and the social system in place. There were a lot of things that I did not know about Brazil that I know now after reading this novel, for which I am grateful to have had the opportunity. However, I didn't like the story. This was probably because I didn't like André. When he is describing himself as a teenager, you get the impression that he was a self-obsessed boy. Not much has changed in his adulthood. I found his character to be annoyingly selfish and prone to being melodramatic. The story was also not that unique, so I really wasn't too interested in what was happening to the characters. The dialogue between the characters was also emotionless and that struck me as odd, since this story pretty much demands passion. Overall, this was just an okay novel - and that's only because of the great setting the author created. However, the story itself failed in execution. For those reasons, I'm giving this a 1.5/5 stars. I received this novel as an advance copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This first novel is the story of a middle aged Brazilian now based in London. He has marriage difficulties, and is looking back at a teenaged love affair with the daughter of his father's maid. At one point the narrator comments his life is like a telenovela, and I think that sums it up pretty well. The puff comments talk about how the novel deals with migration, race and class and so on - it does touch on those things, but I'm not sure how meaningful those contacts are... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a seductive, dazzling, atmospheric story of family, class, and deception set against the mesmerizing backdrops of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon River, and London. André is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful plastic surgeon who lives a life of wealth and privilege, shuttling between the hot sands of Ipanema beach and his family's luxurious penthouse apartment. In 1985, when he is just sixteen, André's mother is killed in a car accident. Clouded with grief, André, his younger brother Thiago, and his father travel with their domestic help to Belem, a jungle city on the mouth of the Amazon, where the intense heat of the rainforest only serves to heighten their volatile emotions. After they arrive back in Rio, André's father loses himself in his work, while André spends his evenings in the family apartment with Luana, the beautiful daughter of the family's maid. Three decades later, and now a successful surgeon himself, André is a middle-aged father, living in London, and recently separated from his British wife. He drinks too much wine and is plagued by recurring dreams. One day he receives an unexpected letter from Luana, which begins to reveal the other side of their story, a story André has long repressed. In deeply affecting prose, debut novelist Luiza Sauma transports readers to a dramatic place where natural wonder and human desire collide. Cutting across race and class, time and place, from London to Rio to the dense humidity of the Amazon, Flesh and Bone and Water straddles two worlds with haunting meditations on race, sex, and power in a deftly plotted coming-of-age story about the nature of identity, the vicissitudes of memory, and how both can bend to protect us f No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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An absorbing short novel, this book immerses us in Brazilian life, contrasting it with the greyness of London, and in the unhappy head of André. Place and personalities are richly described, involving the reader in the lives of each of the characters. A haunting and impressive debut novel. ( )