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Gina Ochsner

Teoksen The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight tekijä

8+ teosta 292 jäsentä 13 arvostelua

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Includes the name: Gina Ochsner

Image credit: Photo by Sheryl H. Eldridge, Newport (Oregon) Public Library

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Associated Works

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (2004) — Avustaja — 740 kappaletta
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta
Best American Fantasy (2007) — Avustaja — 106 kappaletta
The Best American Short Stories 2022 (2022) — Avustaja — 89 kappaletta
Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths (2009) — Avustaja — 38 kappaletta
Eyes to See, Volume Two (2008) — Avustaja — 24 kappaletta
The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women (2015) — Avustaja — 15 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Asuinpaikat
Keizer, Oregon, USA

Jäseniä

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An exercise in surrealism by an American author who chose post Soviet Russia as her setting. So the book, though imaginative, builds stereotype on stereotype. It would have been a more satisfying book to both write and read if the author had chosen a setting with which she was more familiar.
 
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Steve38 | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 22, 2020 |
Really more like 3 1/2 stars. There were some really nicely written passages, and I liked the milieu. On the other hand, it made my eyes glaze over more than once, and some of the characters never quite came alive for me.
 
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GaylaBassham | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 27, 2018 |
Inara, a dying mother in her last days, shares stories with her son Maris, of their family and the people who live in their small Latvian town. Memories dug up like the plots in the cemetery her family has been caretaking, are laid out to be deciphered along with hidden letters her grandmother Velta wrote to her grandfather during WWII after the Soviets invaded their small town and incarcerated him. Maris is an unusual young man; he has huge ears and can hear things others can’t. His mind is extremely creative and he helps his mother understand the letters that she found hidden years before: but the messages they hold will change their town.

This book is like a piece of art, intricate full of depth and an interestingly written mystery. It did take me awhile to get into the tone of the story. Its murkiness seeped through every page, almost like a gothic fairy tale set in a dark forest and yet it’s starts in current time. I may have to go back and read it again; because there are things I missed the first time through. Gina’s characters are intriguing and not all they appear to be on the surface. Definite 4 stars.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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PamelaBarrett | Feb 7, 2017 |
This is one I never made it through.
 
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laurenbufferd | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Nov 14, 2016 |

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8
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Jäseniä
292
Suosituimmuussija
#80,152
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½ 3.6
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13
ISBN:t
17
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2

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