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Cargando... Landed (2010)por Tim Pears
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. When Owen Ithell’s young daughter is killed in a car crash, his marriage falls apart and he is denied access to his remaining children. Increasingly frustrated by the social welfare bureaucracy, Owen decides to collect his children from their school and take them on a journey to his childhood home in Wales. What I enjoyed most about this intriguing book are the beautiful descriptions of the natural world. This novel was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Award. This was a very quick read, but I'm still not too sure whether I actually enjoyed it or not. The main character has suffered a number of personal tragedies. He has been in a car accident in which his daughter dies and he has to have his right hand amputated. Then his wife divorces him and won't let him see his kids. So far so depressing. This is all told from what seems like a very distant perspective against the backdrop of the countryside on the England/Wales border. Parts of it are flashbacks to his childhood, part of which was spent on his grandparents farm. The characters are all somewhat taciturn and having finished the book I feel like the author has only scratched the surface of what the story is all about. Perhaps I will try some more books by the same author to see how they compare. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. There he is deeply impressed by his grandfather's primitive, cruel relationship with his animals and the land. As an adult he moves away from the country of his childhood to an English city where he builds a new life, working as a gardener. He meets Mel, they have children. He believes he has found happiness--and love--of a sort. But following a car accident, in which his daughter is killed and he loses a hand, the course of his life and the lives of those he loves is changed forever. Owen, unable to work, alienated and eventually legally separated from his family, is haunted by suicidal thoughts. In his despair, he resolves to reconnect with both his past and the natural world. Abducting his children, he embarks on a long, fateful journey, walking to the Welsh borders of his childhood. In his confusion his journey is a grasping at some kind of an understanding of his powerful loss. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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