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Cargando... Künstlers in Paradise (edición 2023)por Cathleen Schine (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was a disappointment, although the reviews i read were mixed. I appreciated the information i learned about a group of refugees who were able to leave Europe before and during the Holocaust. The characters presented were only moderately interesting, and many of the details were tedious. Most of the characters were 2-dimensional and only represented certain topics to the extreme. I would guess that I've read enough of Cathleen Schine. Lovingly shared moments between a grandmother and her grandson during a pandemic lockdown meander through time and place. Memories from 1939 Vienna, Austria, to present day Venice, California, include an escape from the Holocaust to a relationship with Greta Garbo. A current review calls it “Full of wit and panasche”. This was a light and easy read about twenty something New Yorker Julian, who is stuck in Los Angeles with his 93 year old grandmother, Mamie as the pandemic begins. She tells him stories of her life as an emigre at the start of World War II. I liked the way their relationship developed and how Julian really grew as a person. It was enjoyable but slow at times, particularly Mamie's stories about famous people who really wouldn't be known by many people born after 1940. Thanks to Goodreads for the ARC. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. *I received this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Thank you to the author and publisher!
Künstlers in Paradise was a light-hearted read, offering an intriguing blend of present-day action and historical flashbacks.
Mamie Künstler, now 93 years old, has taken in her grandson, Julian, for the summer. However, the summer quickly extends as the COVID-19 pandemic hits. Mamie begins to tell Julian the story of her family’s escape from Vienna into the star-dazzled émigré world of Los Angeles, relating anecdotes about the many remarkable people she meets in their new “Paradise”.
While I loved the flashback stories and the way that Julian grew into himself over the course of the book, the plot did lag at times, perhaps intentionally echoing that feeling of time slowly passing that so many of us experienced in the early days of the pandemic.
Overall, an interesting and fun novel that did a great job blending the old and new.
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HTML: There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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With each chapter I was hopeful that it would improve but it remained as flat as the pandemic experience it chronicles. The dialog was challenging- Grandma Mamie telling stories was wonderful...but then when the author attempted to have the grandson retell Mamie's story to his lockdown girlfriend it was convoluted. Any wonder or dramatic tension over anticipating then learning what great California local or WWII emigre would cameo Mamie's life is lost when the grandson Googles. In the end it seemed more like a mish-mash of name-dropping than a fully-realized historic fiction narrative. ( )