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Cargando... The Paper Palace: A Novel (edición 2021)por Miranda Cowley Heller (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Paper Palace por Miranda Cowley Heller
   Top Five Books of 2021 (291) Books Read in 2024 (751) » 7 más Books Read in 2023 (1,539) Books Read in 2022 (1,846) Books Read in 2021 (3,057) Library ebooks (23) First Novels (254) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  LynnB | Apr 22, 2024 |   This is a story about characters that are like dazzling, dying stars—beautiful and tragic and impossible not to watch their bright deaths streak across an obsidian sky. This is a story about star-crossed lovers. Like Catherine and Heathcliff, Elle and Jonas’s souls are made of the same: hummingbird feathers and underwater kisses and pine-needle-carpeted forest floors. With a shared history—filled with innocence and connection and shame and guilt and secrets—they are woven together, different ends from the same skein, threaded and knotted together despite difficult life choices that keep them apart. Told in four parts, in dual timelines—past and today—Eleanor’s story unravels from multicolored yarn, each thread revealing how she gets to be a fifty-year-old happily married woman with three children who must deal with outcomes of a one-night affair she’s just had with Jonas, the love of her life. Through the untangling of her story, we watch pieces come together, secrets and revelations buried deep beneath the sand dunes of the Cape and the sewers of the city asphalt, things too dirty and tainted and rotted, tugged out from the shadows and unmasked enough for Elle to make a final impossible choice: “One [she] can’t have. One [she doesn’t] deserve to have” (355). Page-turner isn’t the right term. This story is more than that. This is a story you get caught in, wrapped up tightly in—sometimes it feels like a warm blanket, others like the eye of a storm. Regardless, it’s a story so immersive, so emotive that these characters will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page. (  ) lizallenknapp | Apr 20, 2024 | The time line - successfully - alternates between an almost hour-by-hour account of just one day, spent at Elle's slightly ramshackle family holiday home near the coast, and a resume of the fifty-some years of her life. I liked the ending. It's clear that the ends are not tied up. There are hints that the drama we have been following has not been fully resolved, and will go on to further scenes, possibly over an extended period. (  ) Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 | We follow Elle throughout her life as she hops from one time to another in a mostly seamless way (but occasionally, in the beginning, I couldn't keep straight if we were in today's Elle life or her younger Elle life). The Paper Palace is the main cabin, with a few outlying cabins that have been in Elle's family for generations. The Paper Palace holds all of Elle's fondest and worst memories. It's where Elle and her big sister Anna argued and would come back together; it's where Elle met Jonnas, her lifelong love, it's where Elle takes her husband Peter and their children every year to join her mother for vacation; it's where Elle lost her innocence. There is so much to love about this book; the writing is superb, it just flows, and you know Elle, Jonnas, Peter, Elle's mother, and all the other characters intimately. (I love Elle's mother - she's truly a bitch, but one of those that is also so endearing you just can't hate her, most the time.) Rich with family dynamics, I thoroughly enjoyed navigating life with Elle in The Paper Palace. ( ) LyndaWolters1 | Apr 3, 2024 | ) dara85 | Mar 26, 2024 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
PremiosDistinciones
Fiction.
Romance.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: Se olvida alguna vez el primer amor? Dcadas de secretos y mentiras han conducido a Elle al da de hoy. Tiene 24 horas para tomar la decisin que cambiara su vida para siempre. Antes de que nadie se despierte, en una perfecta maana de agosto, Elle se dirige a nadar en el esplndido estanque del Palacio de Papel, la casa en los bosques de Cape Cod donde su familia ha pasado los veranos durante generaciones. Desde el porche, Elle an puede ver la mesa sin recoger de la cena; copas de vino vacas, cera de velas en el mantel, ecos de las risas de sus familiares y conocidos. Pero esta maana es diferente: la noche anterior Elle y su mejor amigo de la infancia, Jonas, se escabulleron para tener un apasionado encuentro contra la pared exterior de la casa mientras sus parejas charlaban en el interior. Dcadas de recuerdos, secretos y mentiras han conducido a Elle hasta este da. Ahora, durante las siguientes veinticuatro horas, tendr que elegir entre la vida que ha construido con su maravilloso marido, Peter, y la que imagin con su primer amor, Jonas, si un trgico suceso no lo hubiera cambiado todo para siempre. Reseas: Magnfica y preciosa. Me sent absolutamente inmersa y atrapada y estoy desolada por haberla acabado. Una novela fantsticamente construida, maravillosamente inteligente y seductora, repleta de una multitud de placeres. Heller ha sido doblemente bendecida en lo que se refiere a su poder para la descripcin, es tan buena en la naturaleza como en interiores. Un libro cautivador. Los maravillosos paisajes de Back Woods proporcionanun envolvente entorno para las reflexiones de Elle y sus reveladores recuerdos. Un debut atrapante... La prosa de Heller crea una atmsfera llena de ricos detalles. El lector intentar adivinar el final hasta la ltima pgina. Me sumerg totalmente en esta gil narracin que entreteje a la perfeccin el pasado y el presente. Creo que os encantar! Haca siglos que una novela contempornea no me atrapaba tanto. Me encant. Desde las primeras pginas de su novela debut, Heller no se guarda ningn golpe. Y algunos aparecen ms tarde para sorprenderte. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This a story about family relationships and the effects of trauma. It is complex, like life. Sometimes love isn't enough. Choices are usually far less clear than right or wrong. Or they are both. Lots to think about. (