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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The prose is sublime, and the exploration/uses of language had me wishing I knew Hebrew. And in many ways this novel is a tour de force. But for me, it really failed to live up to its early promise. I felt I was being led to expect a much darker, more profound denouement, and was therefore ultimately disappointed. But I will definitely keep reading this trilogy as when Ravel is on form, she is masterful. Don't let the title fool you; this is not a Harlequin, this is not a gentle Sunday afternoon read. Ten Thousand Lovers, the story of Lily and Ami, is really the story of Israel today, a country that is in the difficult position of trying to figure out a way to both be good and to survive. A book that is wonderful on two levels, appealing to both heart and mind. I was absolutely blown away but this, the first in Edeet Ravel's Tel Aviv-trilogy - a series about war and its effect on people who fall in love in its midst. Ten Thousand Lovers is told through sections, a few pages devoted to each section. Some sections are about young Lily, a Canadian immigrant to Israel, some are about an older Lily, now living in London writing her memoirs, and the remaining sections are about language - the various meanings of words and the connection between Hebrew and Arabic and the various connotations that come out when languages intermix. The order in which the sections are presented is what gives the story its urgency, because the reader is sometimes presented with an outcome of an event, but the actual event has not yet been told. The stakes are very high for the reader and you just want to read on to find out how the things that happened happen. To call a non-thriller book a "page-turned" is rare, but this is truly it. I absolutely loved spending time with Lily and Ami and to follow how the progression of their love story and to see how they overcome the obstacles they face. The language sections are an intricate part of the equation in that they explain a lot of political and cultural issues which are part of Lily and Ami's life (in addition to being just plain interesting). This is one of my favorite reads so far this year and I know I will reread this more than once. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Lily is a young emigrant student exploring the wonders and terrors of her new land when she meets the man of her dreams. Ami, a former actor, is handsome, intelligent and exciting - but, like his beautiful, disintegrating country, he has a terrible flaw - he is an army interrogator. However, as Lily and Ami's unexpected passion grows, so too does the shadow that hangs over them - the unspeakable horrors which Ami's work forces him to face. In today's world, where danger, terrorism and the possibility of war are a part of all our lives, no novel could be more brilliantly, terrifyingly contemporary. Yet TEN THOUSAND LOVERS is set in Israel in the Seventies: a dazzling backdrop to a universal story of passion, suffering and the transcending power of love. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Due to the increasing complexity of political turmoil in Israel and a tendency to be more mainstream, modern Israeli novelists increasingly tend to omit political leanings in their writing. No so Edeet Ravel. She weaves it into the very heart of her story with great eloquence. She expresses her views openly because one cannot live in Israel without revealing those feelings. Beyond that, however, is a more heartbreaking story. It’s of how an Israeli woman feels in the company of a man who loves not only her but also his country and has an important duty to both. The end of the story is one of the most powerful that I have read in a novel in a long time, and how the author creates this atmosphere is for the reader to discover.