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Build your house around my body : a novel (edición 2021)

por Violet Kupersmith

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"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the Mtis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together, and what happened to Winnie. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands, a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing marvel of a novel"--… (más)
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Título:Build your house around my body : a novel
Autores:Violet Kupersmith
Información:New York : Random House, [2021]
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Etiquetas:to-read, historical-fiction

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Build Your House Around My Body por Violet Kupersmith

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Loved this book. There are characters who appear throughout under slightly different designations and figuring out who is who is part of the fun. There is folklore and humor and big time revenge. And snakes, lots and lots of snakes. I liked the fact that some of the experiences were the kind of daily semi-threatening experiences nearly every woman has had ( playing keep away with your things e.g.)
A lot of the descriptions and events are a little nauseating, but I think it’s intentional. An indictment of colonialism and sexism. For a first time author to choose to tell the story in such a non-linear way was a bold choice, but I think it works.
The best part for me was the spiritual eradication squad, sort of a Vietnamese ghostbusters. It was some much needed comic relief.
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  cspiwak | Mar 6, 2024 |
"Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge."

Ok wow this book was weird. I struggled so much to keep going. I made it to the end but wasn't entirely happy about it. I should have stopped reading but there were so many good reviews, I thought it must all come together eventually. And it did, it just didn't make reading the rest of it worth it.

Throughout you are introduced to more and more characters who link themselves in through some strange coincidences. I got to the point where starting a new chapter and a new character being introduced made me groan and think "Oh no, not another one".

I did really like the ending so if you're in to strange, supernatural and unsettling reads, you may enjoy this. ( )
  Incredibooks | Mar 1, 2024 |
Every so often I see a book cover or title and I am immediately drawn to it. With Violet Kupersmith’s debut novel, Build Your House Around My Body, it was both the cover and the title that grabbed my attention, and I was not disappointed by the content either. The book, which is part ghost story, part folklore, part horror, and shifts often between the past and the present, has several interwoven storylines that touch on generational trauma, history of place, women’s bodies, and colonialism. The central character, Ngoan “Winnie” Nguyen, is a rather aimless Vietnamese-American woman who grew up in the United States but takes a job teaching English in Saigon, and gradually disappears into the remains of her life, both figuratively and literally. But the real protagonist of the story is Binh, a young woman who grew up with Phan brothers Tan and Long, and who died and became a ghost, or rather something a bit more ghoulish. Winnie encounters both Tan and Long during her time in Vietnam. The tale is full of colorful characters, some cartoonish even, but despite this somewhat humorous aspect, the story of Binh’s fierce independence and Winnie’s largely passive struggle with her identity is beautifully told. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
I loved this book and it is going to stay with me for a long time. I can't wait to reread in a month or so to find even more hidden treasures in it!! ( )
  cleverlettuce | Nov 6, 2023 |
A young Vietnamese-American ESL teacher goes missing in Saigon, explored through a narrative that jumps around in time and space. Weird but fun combination of a supernatural Vietnamese thriller and a young woman’s loneliness and isolation living abroad — I absolutely loved the scenes of our heroine interacting with her colleagues. An anticlimactic (and confusing) conclusion leaves some loose ends, but overall a great read. ( )
  theoldlove | Apr 12, 2023 |
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"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the Mtis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together, and what happened to Winnie. Written with wit, ambition, and playfulness, this book takes us from sweaty nightclubs to ramshackle zoos, colonial mansions to ex-pat flats, sizzling back-alley street carts to the noisy seats of motorbikes. Spanning over fifty years and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a fever dream about possessed bodies and possessed lands, a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing marvel of a novel"--

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