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Cargando... Clover (2016)por Charlie Jane Anders
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am glad to learn that Berkley is okay. I was very mad when reading All the Birds in the Sky that we got no closure on what happened to the cat, so I was happy to find this short story. However. It was just okay. I didn't have enough to get me connected to the human characters, so I didn't really care what happened to them. I am happy about the way Clover got out of her predicament, but really the only question this short answered was "what happened to Berkley" and even the questions raised in this short story weren't really answered. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the author's novel, All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia's cat? A stranger shows up at the door of a gay couple, Anwar and Joe, who ́d just gotten married the day before, and presents them with Berkley, a black cat with white marks. He tells them that Berkley will bring them nine years of good luck if they adopt him. And he does! Anwar ́s microbrew business grows, Joe ́s news reporting career goes well, and their relationship stays solid. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Charlie Jane Anders give this a fairy tale cadence throughout, which works perfectly. The unexpected gift of cats from strange men is odd, but within the tone this is not too strange to be accepted. Perhaps it is the cats, but there are hints of [a:Murakami|3354|Haruki Murakami|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1539035376p2/3354.jpg] and, perhaps, [a:Charles de Lint|8185168|Charles de Lint|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1494881016p2/8185168.jpg].
The tale itself is simple, that of a couple facing the ups and downs of life together, the one from whom we get the POV questioning himself when things go awry and paralysed with fear, unable to communicate. What makes it sparkle is that handling of tone and detail; the characters are minimally but artfully sketched with small details, and is the world. This is clearly a fantasy tale - as I say, a fairy story, with strange people delivering cats that (may) grant luck and may not be cats at all - but the brushed mise en scene suggests a world that is barely tomorrow - increased displacement of refugees, violence and intolerance. Actually, as it was published in 2016, perhaps we are in that tomorrow.
The whole is filled with compassion and flair and magic. We are left with lose threads but this is fine as they are part of the richness of the tapestry, and an acceptance that not having magical, external luck is simply normal life. If that maneki neko actually was any more than a placebo after all.
I see that the story is marked as [b:All the Birds in the Sky|25372801|All the Birds in the Sky|Charlie Jane Anders|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1429225322s/25372801.jpg|45119441] 1.5. I've had that on my shelf for awhile, so I think it is due a read. ( )