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Ladataan... Flying in PlaceTekijä: Susan Palwick
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book tackles a very difficult subject: a parent who molests his child. Everything about the subject is distasteful, yet Susan Palwick does a very good job of telling the story through 12 year old Emma, the victim of the abuse. What Emma does to protect herself from her father's behavior, something over which she has no control, is written with such credibility it's easy to believe this story could actually happen. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness, with bravery and compassion, for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father, who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling, which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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What's not so good, though, is the cardboard character of almost all of the protagonists. The father is a cartoon: a cold and criminal brute with no other sides at all. The uncaring and hopelessly narrow-minded mother, a snob avant la lettre is only slightly better. The loud, ramshackle and ultimately kindhearted neighbours are prototypes of never-failing good people, with no negative sides, except their being so unkempt. These seem out of place in a novel with such a realistic tone.
Even Emma herself seems somewhat one-dimensional. I could not really relate to the way she as a 12-year old still thinks her mother will die if she betrays what her father does to her.
By far the best personage is her sister Ginny, residing in a twilight 'middle-ground', where she is compelled to appear to give Emma a clue. These passages are in their utter strangeness very convincing. The final turns of the story-line are excellent too.
The book succeeds on the score of the development of the story, the careful way of addressing such a grievous subject and the credible portrayal of her dead sister and the twilight zone she lives in.
The monochrome characters are a let-down, though... ( )