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Indlæser... The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel (udgave 2020)af Akwaeke Emezi (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Death of Vivek Oji af Akwaeke Emezi
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 3.5? I think this was good but I felt frustrated how the title character is obscured from their own story. There's a sort of narrative reason for this with a reveal at the end but not only is everything we see of them from an outside perspective, even that is frustratingly minimal. In the end they feel boiled down to one characteristic that's treated as part of a twist ending even though it's really not that surprising. At the same time the relationships and inner lives of the characters we spend more time with also feel frustratingly opaque. There's one chapter that's about a bystander that gives an entire life story, explaining everything about where he's at and his actions and he's only relevant due to witnessing something. Yet we never really get a feel for why any of the other major characters are friends with the title character even. People have relationships but there's no sign of why, they just happen. To an extent this is obviously a narrative choice - when telling a story from after someone has died, what warps the world of the people left behind is their absence, and we're experiencing some of that. It's just... maybe this is me personally relating to the title character too hard and emotionally, but I really wanted somehow for the narrative to do justice to them, to let them speak, to let them be, to let them be fully formed, not an absence. It's not that it's a bad book in any way at all, it's just. Personally I struggled with that. Reason read: Bookclub (WC) for August 2023. A story set in Nigeria that features young people during the 80s and 90s who grapple with sexual identity, parent-child relationships, and death written by a nonbinary, transgender author. It has received a fair amount of attention and has been long and short listed. It was a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. The plot is nonlinear and you really receive the climax in the first sentence. The characters are a bunch of young adults, children of Nigerian fathers and Nigerwives (non-Nigerian women) who find support from each other. I enjoyed the book in general, there is sexual and gender issues but that is one of the themes of the book. Rating 2.7 stars of C-
"... achingly beautiful probe into the challenges of living fully as a nonbinary human being, is an illuminating read." HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
Vivek Ojis korte liv og brutale død er omdrejningspunkt for en kalejdoskopisk fortælling om sorg, tab, ensomhed og om at være anderledes. For læsere, der holder af genrebrydende, rørende bøger. No library descriptions found. |
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This tenderly written book explores the meaning of identity, friendship and love. Although the title and opening scene let's you know that the protagonist is brutally murdered, the book also deals with topics such as adultery, incest, and bigamy. It also contains explicit sexual content. ( )