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Cargando... The Size of the World (2008)por Joan Silber
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 Silber’s half-dozen linked stories bounce between these poles. Her narrators are all Americans (one a transplant from Sicily but very much an American) who find their provincialism challenged by exposure to another land, or to someone who’s been transformed by such exposure. Impossible: “I hadn’t imagined such a place, how could I have?” Necessary: “Each separate corner of the world was obsessed with its own set of the familiar, the mass of fine points its residents were sure every human had to know” — so much so that the whole world “was populated by idiots savants, who knew what they knew very well and not all that much else.” The “that much else” is what Silber’s six narrators find out. Premios
A richly imagined novel--set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America--about men and women whose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how many "riffs there are to being human." Travelers, colonials, immigrants, and returned ex-pats meet or pass one another in narratives spanning lifetimes.In the book's opening, an engineer in Vietnam is shaken to discover why his company's planes are getting lost. A modern marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman leads to a terrible family fight. In 1920s Siam a young woman experiences the colonial stance of her tin-prospecting brother. The last section returns the brother to the States, older now but ever in love with Asian women.Love, loss, yearning, self-delusion, and forgiveness are here in ways fresh and surprising. And in the tradition of E. M. Forster, seeing the size of the world changes the meaning of home-sickness for all the characters. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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