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Cargando... The Absolute Book (2019 original; edición 2019)por Elizabeth Knox (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It’s no “Jonathan Strange..” ( ) (8.5) During the reading of this book, I was reminded of the Booker Prize winner The Luminaries, by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Not because of a similarity in plot line, but more due to the complexity of the story line and the wonderful descriptive, lyrical language. It is also a substantial book at 652 pages. The book moves between the events in contemporary times and an alternate world of the Sidhe (Celtic faery people) and the Taken, the humans they have removed from our world, often due to their dire situations. I found myself rereading passages at time as it does require a heightened level of focus to understand or anticipate what is happening. I admit to being lost when the MI5 were involved, trying to find a link between to men who died linked to a compound in Pakistan. However, by the closing pages all the inter-connections have been revealed. Probably a book that would be better appreciated on second reading. Maybe a book to be tackled over a quiet holiday break with no distraction. The language is great and I did come across a new word - inspissated which had me reaching for my Oxford dictionary. there were also some frightening, thrilling scenarios and fantastical creatures which kept you on the edge of your seat. There are so many themes running through this book, murder, revenge, the preservation of books and libraries, religion and the human race's environmental impact on our world.
This is all to say that the experience of reading the New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox’s contemporary fantasy novel The Absolute Book reminded me of how I felt reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell or The Left Hand of Darkness or His Dark Materials or, to move out of genre, Life After Life or The Underground Railroad. I felt that my position in relation to the book’s capacious intellect and imagination and moral purpose was a vertiginous one. It was thrilling and frightening, reading this book. Premios
A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything "Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches "An instant classic . . . It is everything fantasy should be." --The Guardian Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the things that threaten libraries: insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring . . . but not all of the attention it brings her is good. A policeman, Jacob Berger, questions her about a cold case. Then there are questions about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter, as well as threatening phone calls and a mysterious illness. Finally a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is epic, action-packed fantasy in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, birds can talk, and dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to Auckland, New Zealand; from a magical fairyland to Purgatory. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds and create gods out of mortals. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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