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Indlæser... Lovesong (udgave 2009)af Alex Miller
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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. It is a terrific book, but Sabiha's heart's desire alienated me - I couldn't empathise. ( ) Shortly after Ken (an author) meets John, John gets to chatting about his history: the time he spent in Paris (Ken and John now live in Australia), how he met his wife, Sabiha (an immigrant from Tunisia), and their life running a cafe before coming (returning, in John's case) to Australia. There is a small side-story with Ken and his daughter, as well. I started off liking it, and it still ended ok, but I downgraded my rating slightly because I ended up not really liking any of the characters. I really disliked Sabiha more than anyone else, but I really didn't much like anyone, except maybe Ken. I have a hard time liking a book when I don't like the characters. It's not a fast-paced book. My first foray into the works of Alex Miller and I think I'll be back for more. I really liked the chapters which were set in the narrator's current life, in which he lived in Melbourne with his adult daughter. I also found significant insights in the sub-plot set in France in which the roles of men, women, mothers and fathers are delineated. I didn't relate so well to the Tunisian cultural references It seems I have found a 'new' author. I know this guy has been around, and writing for more than 30 years, but I had honestly never heard of him until recently. I'm so glad I did though. This guy can write. http://wp.me/p1zSnI-4P ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom - a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris' distant fringes, run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha. But when one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, the quiet simplicities of their lives are changed forever. Years later, living a small, quiet life in suburban Melbourne, what happened in Paris seems like a distant, troubling dream to Sabiha and John, who confide the story behind their seemingly ordinary lives to Ken, an ageing, melancholy writer. No library descriptions found. |
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