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Lädt ... A God in Ruins: A Novel (Original 2015; 2016. Auflage)von Kate Atkinson (Autor)
Werk-InformationenA God in Ruins von Kate Atkinson (2015)
   » 11 mehr Books Read in 2016 (440) Books Read in 2021 (2,450) Books Read in 2015 (2,745) Books about World War II (204) Books Read in 2023 (4,800) Female Author (1,071) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |    ) flydodofly | Jan 20, 2024 | As always with Kate Atkinson, the writing is beautiful. There were several times the events in the book really touched me. Most reviewers loved the book. It just didn't work for me. (  ) LynnB | Nov 18, 2023 |  ) karenchase | Jun 14, 2023 |  ) Iira | Jan 16, 2023 |
 Kate Atkinson writes a brilliant follow-up to her brilliant novel, focusing on Teddy, the RAF pilot and brother of the previous book’s heroine....But if A God in Ruins suffers from a touch too much tidiness, if it overcalculates the glories of a sensitive “artistic soul,” those flaws pale next to Atkinson’s wit, humanity, and wisdom. In her afterword, she alludes to the “great conceit hidden at the heart of the book to do with fiction and the imagination, which is revealed only at the end.” It is a great conceit. But it’s also a testament to the novel’s craft and power that the conceit isn’t what you’ll remember when it’s over.  A God in Ruins doesn’t have a plot so much as a question, namely: How does such a lovely, perfect guy produce such a horrible, ungrateful daughter? Atkinson’s characteristic intelligence and wit are often on prominent display in the novel, yet it isn’t quite idiosyncratic enough to avoid the pitfalls of plotlessness. The chapters describing Teddy’s wartime exploits, in particular, feel over-long and over-detailed. One gets the sense that Atkinson has done a lot of painstaking research and doesn’t want to waste the fruits of her labour. ...Unlike Life After Life, which began flamboyantly and had a large cast of nuanced characters, this novel’s rewards come late in its pages. Until they do, we’re left in the company of two people who are ultimately rather dull: one because he’s “deplorably honest,” the other because she’s exasperatingly self-serving. Narrative psychology tells us there’s bound to be an explanation for this, and there is; the question is whether readers will have the patience to stick around and find out what it is. But then you read a novel like Kate Atkinson’s “A God in Ruins,” a sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family, and you remember what a big, old-school novel can do. Atkinson’s book covers almost a century, tracks four generations, and is almost inexhaustibly rich in scenes and characters and incidents. It deploys the whole realist bag of tricks, and none of it feels fake or embarrassing. In fact, it’s a masterly and frequently exhilarating performance by a novelist who seems utterly undaunted by the imposing challenges she’s set for herself....Taken together, “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins” present the starkest possible contrast. In the first book, there’s youth and a multitude of possible futures. In the second, there’s only age and decay, and a single immutable past. This applies not only to the characters, but to England itself, which is portrayed over and over as a drab and diminished place. The culprit is obvious — it’s the war itself, “the great fall from grace.”  A God in Ruins is the story of Teddy’s war and its legacy, “a ‘companion’ piece rather than a sequel”, according to the author. At first glance it appears to be a more straightforward novel than Life After Life, though it shares the same composition, flitting back and forth in time so that a chapter from Teddy’s childhood in 1925 sits alongside a fragment of his grandchildren’s childhood in the 1980s, before jumping back to 1947, when Teddy and his wife Nancy, newly married, are trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the devastation: ...A God in Ruins, together with its predecessor, is Atkinson’s finest work, and confirmation that her genre-defying writing continues to surprise and dazzle. Gehört zur ReiheTodd Family (2) AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Teddy Todd wächst als Lieblingskind seiner Mutter behütet auf dem Land auf. Im 2. Weltkrieg fliegt er als Pilot Bombenangriffe auf Deutschland. Dies prägt ihn für den Rest seines Lebens. Die Beziehung zu seiner unsympathischen Tochter ist schwierig, die zu seinen Enkelkindern jedoch sehr liebevoll. Die Geschichte um Teddys Familie, die in nicht chronologischen Einzelepisoden aus verschiedenen Sichtweisen erzählt wird und durch Vor- und Rückblenden ein eng gewobenes Gesamtbild vermittelt, ist die unabhängige Fortsetzung von "Die Unvollendete" (ID-A 41/13). Wie ein Gedankenstrom wird mitten im Erzählen etwas vorweggenommen, das in der Zukunft passieren wird oder etwas aus der Vergangenheit Erinnertes reflektiert. Oft ist dabei tragisch, wie Missverständnisse zu Entfremdungen führen. Zentrales und ergreifend erzähltes Thema sind Teddys erschütternde Erlebnisse als Bomberpilot. Die überraschende Wendung am Ende stellt alles auf den Kopf. Die vielen Puzzleteile und Schicksale sowie die subtile Bildersprache erfordern Konzentration. Ein ungewöhnlicher, anspruchsvoller Roman der britischen Autorin. Empfohlen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Engaging and deeply moving, a meditation on the art of fiction. Beautifully written, like all of Atkinson’s work.
The fact that Atkinson is English and almost exactly my own age means that there are many experiences and references in the book which resonate deeply with me; perhaps less so for other readers. (