Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations. Told through the voices of the mother and her son, as well as through a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images--including prior stories of migration and displacement--Lost Children Archive is a story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. Blending the personal and the political with astonishing empathy, it is a powerful, wholly original work of fiction: exquisite, provocative, and deeply moving"--
"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"--… (lisätietoja)
Alkoi (ja jatkui) vähän raskaasti ja tuntui ettei kerronta ala vetää. Loppua kohti kasvoin kiinni tähän kerronnan ja näkökulmien sekamelskaan, mutta ehkä vain niissä osioissa jotka kerrottiin lasten näkökulmasta. Aikuisiin en muodostanut mitään tunnesidettä. Jotenkin suomennos vähän tökki, ehkä lasten puhetapa erityisesti. Olisi pitänyt lukea englanniksi mutta tämä nyt sattui tulemaan suomeksi ensin vastaan. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To Maia and Dylan, who showed me childhood all over again.
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Mouths open to the sun, they sleep.
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
I stand in front of the trunk of our boxes, five of them, with our archive - Though it's optimistic to call our collected mess an archive - plus the two empty boxes for the children's future archive. p42
What's a midwife? the girl asks. Someone who delivers babies, says my husband. Like the postwoman? Yes, he says, like a postwoman. p54
We order four hamburgers and four pink lemonades, and spread our map out on the tale while we wait for the food. We follow yellow and red highway lines with the tips of our index fingers, like a troupe of gypsies reading an enormous open palm. p125
Then, in a gasstation outside a town called Loco, I get asked about my accent and place of birth, and I say no, I was not born in this country, and when I say where I was born, I don't even get a nod in return. Just cold, dead silence, as if I had confessed a sin. p129
I take my recorder from the glove compartment and start and start recording my husband,.. . His stories are not directly linked to the piece I'm working om, but the more I listen to the stories he tells about the country's past, the more it seems like he's talking about the present. p133
"Look mama, look over there!" I slowly walk my eyes and the line of small figures now stepping of the hangar and onto the runaway. They are all children. Girls, boys: one behind another, no backpacks, nothing. p182
We called for Pa and Ma now and then, but our voices got drowned in the air as soon as we cried out. Not an echo not anything, That's when we really realized, like inside our stomachs, that we'd got lost. p264
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
You might feel lost one day, but you have to remember that you're not, because you and I will find each other again.
"From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations. Told through the voices of the mother and her son, as well as through a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images--including prior stories of migration and displacement--Lost Children Archive is a story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. Blending the personal and the political with astonishing empathy, it is a powerful, wholly original work of fiction: exquisite, provocative, and deeply moving"--
"A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view, and including archival documents and photographs"--
Jotenkin suomennos vähän tökki, ehkä lasten puhetapa erityisesti. Olisi pitänyt lukea englanniksi mutta tämä nyt sattui tulemaan suomeksi ensin vastaan. ( )