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TeostiedotThe Swan Book (tekijä: Alexis Wright)
![]() Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Het verhaal gaat over de aboriginals en over het wegdrukken van aboriginals. Het is wat ze noemen "beeldend" beschreven, maar op mij kwam het wat chaotisch over. Soms worden er beelden opgeroepen waar ik helemaal niets mee kan omdat ze niet passend zijn in de context van het verhaal. Ook zit er geen logica in het verhaal. Dat de vrouw met de toekomstige president trouwt wordt niet erg uitgediept. je zou toch een zekere relatie of verwantschap verwachten. Ook blijft de aboriginal president nogal zwart/wit in mijn ogen. Kortom, ik was enigszins teleurgesteld door dit boek, ondanks dat de problematiek interessant is. I think I’m an outlier in my opinion of this book, so I won’t say much. I will say the writing is incredibly sloppy in parts: “etching out a living”, “stuck in a grove”, “a slitter of bone” and “Ghandi” are among the pearlers I found in this. Unless it’s done intentionally - and it clearly isn’t - I find this unacceptable in a major work from an award-winning novelist. Apart from that, bugger-all happens in almost 400 pp apart from a great deal of musing about the main character’s relationship with swans. The little that does happen goes unexplained for the most part. I like my magic realism and dystopian novels, and the idea of a dystopian society resulting from the Howard-era Aboriginal Intervention is a promising one, but this book is pointless, poorly-written drivel. An extraordinary story, a tour-de-force of language and literary techniques. I think Wright's contribution to the corpus of cli-fi books is timely: it shows how the 'climate apocalypse' might have already arrived to those most vulnerable and how all ideological illusions of universality shatter in its face. The Swan Book is as enchanting as it is depressing. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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This book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans driven from other parts of the country, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wright's previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning best-seller. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people; the wild energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations; and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements, drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Given this poetic, magical realist, and/or metaphorical style, it took me a little while to get into. Once I stopped searching for a plot and let myself enjoy the imagery and atmosphere, I appreciated 'The Swan Book'. The blurb is rather misleading, though. It isn’t really the story of Oblivia, ostensibly the main character. Rather, it is a rather beautiful word-portrait of Australia ruined by climate change. The actual main characters are swans and various other creatures. I felt like I would have got more from it had I known more about Australian history and culture. Nonetheless, it was a pleasantly strange experience once I’d embraced it. (