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Cargando... Leave the World Behind: A Novel (edición 2020)por Rumaan Alam (Autor), Marin Ireland (Narrador), HarperAudio (Publisher)
Información de la obraLeave the World Behind por Rumaan Alam
  
Books Read in 2021 (318) Top Five Books of 2020 (477) » 17 más Top Five Books of 2021 (176) Books Read in 2020 (542) Best Beach Reads (55) Best Family Stories (236) Nightmares Not Included (122) Reading 2021 (5) Obama Reads (21) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) greenbee | Apr 21, 2024 |  Amanda und Clay wollen mit ihren beiden Kindern eine unbeschwerte Ferienwoche auf Long Island verbringen. In einem Haus am Ende der Welt, weit weg von allem. Doch mitten in der Nacht steht dort plötzlich ein älteres, schwarzes Ehepaar vor der Tür. Die beiden behaupten, das Haus gehöre ihnen. Sie berichten, dass ganz New York im Dunkeln liege, das Leben an der Ostküste komplett lahmgelegt sei. Hier draussen jedoch, an diesem abgeschiedenen Ort, ohne Internet, Handy- oder Fernsehempfang, wissen Amanda und Clay nicht, was sie davon halten sollen. Können sie den beiden trauen? Rumaan Alam hat einen modernen Klassiker geschrieben. Einen brillanten Gesellschaftsroman, der sich mit den brennenden Fragen unserer Zeit auseinandersetzt - mit der Irrationalität unseres Lebensstils, sozialem Status, Rassismus und mit einer Welt, die unerwartet aus den Fugen gerät ... (  ) ela82 | Mar 23, 2024 | ) mybookloveobsession | Mar 12, 2024 | ) ardaiel | Mar 4, 2024 | I'm glad I did! I enjoyed them both, for different reasons. The cinematography in the movie definitely lent to the story (more of a disaster movie vibe which I love). The book was more of a slow burning what's going on/implied impending disaster/thriller. I was surprised by the differences between the book and the screenplay, especially the character of Ruth. The racism seemed more blatant in the movie. (  ) deslivres5 | Feb 25, 2024 |
Leave the World Behind was written before the coronavirus crisis and yet it taps brilliantly into the feeling of generalised panic that has attached itself to the virus and seems to mingle fears about the climate, inequality, racism and our over-reliance on technology. As the reader moves through the book, a new voice interjects, an omniscient narrator who begins to allow us gradual access to the terrifying events taking place across America. In cutting detail, Alam moves between all the characters’ private thoughts on race, privilege, class and survival, revealing the lies they tell each other both to encourage a sense of calm and to protect their own insecurities.... There’s a dark comfort to engaging with these stories, a sense that living in uncertainty does not necessarily mean we are alone—and that knowing the future won’t help prevent it. I felt a particular isolation in the immediate aftermath of the storm; I feel it every day in the coronavirus era. Resolution will come later. Knowing that is enough for now. “Understanding came after the fact,” Alam writes of his characters. “You had to walk backward and try to make sense. That’s what people did, that’s how people learned.” Alam doesn’t dwell in the specificity of apocalypse, which has been the obsession of writers since the Flood. Instead he lobs a prescient accusation: Faced with the end of the world, you wouldn’t do a damn thing... “Leave the World Behind” teeters on that seesaw-edge question in horror fiction: to reveal the monster or not? Ultimately it totters too far to one side, but there is still the primal nail-biting need to know what-the-hell-is-going-on. This propulsion, which drives much of the characters’ decisions, likewise drives the reader onward to a breathless conclusion that, if not altogether satisfying, is undeniably haunting. Where other practitioners of the genre revel in chaos—the coarse spectacle of society unravelling—Alam keeps close to his characters, who, like insects in acrylic, remain trapped in a state of suspended unease. This, he suggests, is the modern disaster—the precarity of American life, which leaves us unsure, always, if things can get worse.... In the book’s final pages, as the tension suddenly ratchets up, Amanda thinks to herself, “They were equipped to handle certain fears. This was something else. It was hard to remind yourself to be rational in a world where that seemed not to matter as much, but maybe it never had.” “Leave the World Behind” is the perfect title for a book that opens with the promise of utopia and travels as far from that dream as our worst fears might take us. It is the rarest of books: a genuine thriller, a brilliant distillation of our anxious age, and a work of high literary merit that deserves a place among the classics of dystopian literature. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Amanda y Clay se dirigen a un rinc?n remoto de Long Island con la idea de tomarse un descanso de su ajetreada vida en Nueva York: un respiro de fin de semana en una casa de lujo en compa??a de su hijo y su hija. Sin embargo, el hechizo se rompe de madrugada, cuando Ruth y G. H., una pareja mayor, llama a la puerta: son los propietarios de la casa y se han presentado all? en estado de p?nico con la noticia de que un apag?n repentino ha barrido la ciudad. De repente, las dos familias empiezan a presenciar extra?os fen?menos de la naturaleza, como una manada de ciervos que huye despavorida y siembra el caos en el jard?n. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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