David Szalay
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- Geburtstag
- 1974
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Canada
UK - Geburtsort
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Wohnorte
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
UK - Ausbildung
- Oxford University
- Berufe
- radio scriptwriter
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- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)
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- He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.[1] He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40[2] and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists
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I've been in a reading funk lately, and this book hasn't helped; I seem to have been labouring over it for weeks.
The blurb on the back cover states it is a 'novel of nine men', but really it's nine independent stories about nine different men. The only common thread is that they are all indescribably bleak, full of disappointment with life on various scales.
I don't often think about the sex of the authors I read, but Szalay's narrative feels very masculine. Perhaps it's a Mars and Venus thing, but his characters felt emotionless and one-dimensional even when he was trying to convey emotion, and it was difficult to like any of them.
3 stars - well written, but I just didn't like this author's voice.… (mehr)
The blurb on the back cover states it is a 'novel of nine men', but really it's nine independent stories about nine different men. The only common thread is that they are all indescribably bleak, full of disappointment with life on various scales.
I don't often think about the sex of the authors I read, but Szalay's narrative feels very masculine. Perhaps it's a Mars and Venus thing, but his characters felt emotionless and one-dimensional even when he was trying to convey emotion, and it was difficult to like any of them.
3 stars - well written, but I just didn't like this author's voice.… (mehr)
A very fast progressive book about relationships. It begins with a woman getting sick on a plane while sitting next to a man. It then takes you to the man’s story and then a character from his story, and so on. Very creative and a great read.
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