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Tekijä: Audrey Niffenegger

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Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. They were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.… (lisätietoja)
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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 1251) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
Science fiction
  GHA.Library | May 4, 2023 |
Amazing!!! ( )
  beccaboo3454 | Apr 19, 2023 |
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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
I’m a huge fan of time travel stories and usually eat them up like candy. However, years ago, when The Time Traveler’s Wife first came to my attention, I took my time putting it on my TBR list. I’d heard some things about it that made me uncertain as to whether I would like it, but eventually something persuaded me to give it a try. I’m glad that I did and overall I enjoyed it. At its heart, this is a love story (not a romance and I can’t stress this enough) about two people whose love more or less transcends time. Their romantic relationship is deeply interwoven with our hero, Henry’s time traveling. He meets Clare’s younger self in the past, long after he’s married to her in the present. That connection then builds more and more over the years. I’m not usually a big reader of literary fiction, because I often find it rather boring. But this one held my attention pretty well even though it is slow-paced. Probably the thing that kept me reading the most was the time travel aspect, which is masterfully done. Even though it didn’t give me all the feels that a romance novel usually does, I did enjoy the love story, too, so overall this was a good read, even though it’s not my normal fare.

Henry is a librarian in Chicago, who suffers from a genetic anomaly known as chrono-impairment. However, he appears to be unique in that no one else he knows of has this condition. It causes him to travel both forwards and backwards in time and through space without much warning, something he’s been doing since he was six years old and over which he has no real control. Henry was the only child of two musically talented parents, but he possessed no musical ability himself. His mother died tragically and gruesomely in a car accident when he was just a little boy, something he bore witness to and survived. After that his dad basically checked out on life and became an alcoholic, so their downstairs neighbor, an older Korean woman became his surrogate parent. The time traveling proves very difficult for him, because he cannot take anything that isn’t part of his body with him, meaning that he wakes up in many strange places with no clothes or anything else to help him survive, so he ends up learning petty criminal skills. As he grew up, Henry also got involved in drugs, alcohol, womanizing and such, and was generally leading a life lacking in meaning or happiness until he met Clare at the age of twenty-eight. As it turns out, she had known him virtually all her life, but for him, he was meeting her for the first time. However, he felt an instant connection that translated into a soul-mate match, and they were completely inseparable after that. But Henry’s time traveling creates some wrinkles in their relationship and lots of drama as the years go by.

Clare grew up in a wealthy, but largely dysfunctional family, whom she loved in spite of their flaws. Next to her childhood home was a meadow where she often played, and one day, when she was six years old, a man appeared to her from out of nowhere. His name was Henry, he claimed to be a time traveler, and he periodically kept coming back. He was even able to give her a list of dates, letting her know when to expect him. Since months or even years might go by between his visits, she sometimes wondered if he was a figment of her imagination, but as she got older, she knew he was real and believed wholeheartedly in his claims of time travel. She also fell in love with him, but he refused to give her any information about the future other than that they would be together. Then one day at the age of twenty, she finally ran into him by accident at the library where he works. From there, they experienced a whirlwind affair that led to marriage. But having such an unusual husband means that she must deal with his sudden disappearances that can last hours, days, or even weeks at a time, which isn’t easy. She has her art to keep her busy, but more than anything she wants a child, something that proves very difficult to achieve.

Overall, The Time Traveler’s Wife was a good read. I liked both Henry and Clare as the main characters. They’re clearly soul-mates meant for each other. Even though Henry had a relationship with another woman and apparently had slept with many over the years, the minute he meets Clare, it’s as if all other women disappear. For Clare, Henry was it. She’d loved him since she was a young girl and that love was strong enough to make her wait patiently for him each and every time he disappeared on his time traveling jaunts. I have to give the author major props for keeping all the time lines straight and deftly weaving them together into a cohesive, chronological whole. She did a great job of differentiating where we are in time, so that I was never lost. I also liked how she played certain things out in one character’s perspective and later revisited it from the opposite POV. Where I had a few issues is that the story is a very slow-moving one that I could easily see boring some readers who prefer more action. Ultimately I think it was the intellectual nature of the time travel element that kept me engaged. Also the narrative has rather melancholy overtones throughout that gave the story a somewhat heavy feel. I think it might in part be owing to the dangerous and unpredictable nature of Henry’s time traveling as well as the sense that we’re kind of watching two lovers go through the ordinariness of life while dealing with an extraordinary problem. The book doesn’t have a particularly positive ending either, and the only reason I don’t think it entirely depressed me is because the author foreshadows this, so I was able to prepare my tender heart for what was coming. As a nearly life-long romance reader and now writer, I’m all about the HEAs and a more positive vibe, so not having that was a bit of detractor for me. Additionally there were some aspects that were left more ambiguous when I prefer for things to be spelled out more solidly. However, I realize that’s often the nature of literary fiction. Even though it didn’t completely blow me away, I did enjoy The Time Traveler’s Wife and look forward to checking out the movie. ( )
  mom2lnb | Mar 19, 2023 |
Very clever plot and one of the best love stories I've read in a long time ( )
  HelenJaneShaw | Feb 17, 2023 |
Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 1251) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
The triumph of the book is the triumph of normality, of setting up a decent family life even if you are constantly dissappearing from it, of being loyal to somebody with what Niffenegger finally explains as a genetic dysfunction - chrono-displacement, as she calls it.
 
"The Time Traveler's Wife" can be an exasperating read, but as a love story it has its appeal: Refreshingly, the novel portrays long-term commitment as something lively and exuberant rather than dutiful and staid, evoking both the comforts it brings us and the tribulations we learn to live with.
 
Niffenegger, despite her moving, razor-edged prose, doesn't claim to be a romantic. She writes with the unflinching yet detached clarity of a war correspondent standing at the sidelines of an unfolding battle. She possesses a historian's eye for contextual detail. This is no romantic idyll.
lisäsi Shortride | muokkaaUSA Today, Kathy Balog (Sep 24, 2003)
 
About halfway through Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, you realize you're going to be devastated. You love the characters, you're deeply involved in their lives, you can sense tragedy coming and you know it's going to hurt. But there's no way you can stop reading... Niffenegger structures the novel clearly enough that the timelines never get tangled, and her writing is so strong you'd keep going even if you did get confused.
 

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Clock time is our bank manager,
tax collector, police inspector;
this inner time is our wife.

— J. B. PRIESTLEY,
Man and Time
Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

—DEREK WALCOTT
Oh not because happiness exists,
that too-hasty profit snatched from approaching loss.
But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, in which some strange way keeps calling us. Us, the most fleeting of all.
. . . Ah, but what can we take along
into that other real? Not the art of looking,
which is learned so slowly, and nothing that happened here. Nothing.
The sufferings, then. And, above all, the heaviness,
and the long experience of love,—just what is wholly
unsayable.

—from The Ninth Duino Elegy, RAINER MARIA RILKE,
translated by STEPHEN MITCHELL
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For

Elizabeth Hillman Tamandl
May 20, 1915-December 18, 1986

And

Norbert Charles Tamandl
February 11, 1915-May 23, 1957
Ensimmäiset sanat
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PROLOGUE

Clare:
It's hard being left behind.
FIRST DATE, ONE
Saturday, October 26, 1991 (Henry is 28, Clare is 20)

Clare: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
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Henry: I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.
I imagined my mother laughing at me, her well-plucked eyebrows raised high at the sight of her half-Jewish son marooned in the midst of Christmas in Goyland.
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Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. They were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

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