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Ladataan... Vieras kartanossa (2009)Tekijä: Sarah Waters
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Vieras kartanossa oli miellyttävällä tavalla vanhanaikainen kummitustarina. Yliluonnollisen osuus tapahtumissa jää sopivasti selittämättä mutta kirjan viimeiset lauseet ovat pysäyttävät. Ennakkotietojeni perusteella odotin romanttisempaa tarinaa kuin tämä lopulta oli. Tarinan rakkaus on melko yksipuolista. Sodasta toipuva Englanti on mielenkiintoinen tapahtumaympäristö myös Vieras kartanossa – romaanissa. Tarinan hidas eteneminen sai tosin lukemisenkin etenemään hitaasti. ( ) näyttää 3/3
While at one turn, the novel looks to be a ghost story, the next it is a psychological drama of the calibre of du Maurier's Rebecca. But it is also a brilliantly observed story, verging on comedy, about Britain on the cusp of the modern age. In the end, though, however fresh the prose, confident the plotting and astute the social analysis, The Little Stranger has a slightly secondhand feel to it. Waters is clearly at the top of her game, with few to match her ability to bring the past to life in a fully imagined world. I look forward to the book in which she leaves behind past templates, with their limitations, and breaks away to make her own literary history. I guess the Waters fans I spoke to were right to be anxious. There is plenty of lovely writing here, and the plot wasn't so dissatisfying that it put me off entirely. But it made me wary. Should I be? Or is it her worst work? Or, indeed, am I missing something? Over to you. The Little Stranger, like all the best works of postmodernist fiction, acknowledges both that making up stories is a mistaken and hopeless way to try to understand the world, and at the same time that it’s the best – perhaps the only – way we have. The story ends in madness, suicide and a creepy darkness reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" -- mixed with jolts of anxiety and social upheaval reminiscent of today's news. Mukaelmia:Tämän tekstillä on selostus:PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson. "The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."??Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners??mother, son, and daughter??are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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