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Lädt ... Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novelvon Pedro Cabiya
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The book kicks off with a choice: read in conventional order, or follow the zig-zagging Table of Contents. I regret having followed the Table of Contents, as reading conventionally would have allowed me to reach the best parts of the books sooner and weave through the multiple narratives more evenly. The origin myth of our Caribbean zombies proved the most interesting thematic section, while the “zombie scientist and his harem” narrative had me rolling my eyes. ( ) The book starts with a warning: if you read the pages in numerical order, “you will wind up in chaos”; if you follow the page order in the table of contents where chapters are grouped by category, you will be delivered to a “safe harbor”, but “this convenience, however, could be lethal.” I picked possible death over chaos and took the table of contents route, but I’d love to compare notes with someone who read the pages in order. I wonder if a page order reading would be more confusing at first, but would ultimately weave the chapter ‘categories’ together more elegantly. I think the publisher blurb does a great job describing the pleasures of the book without giving anything away, although I wouldn’t call it science fiction by any stretch of the imagination. If you are looking for science fiction zombies you’ll be disappointed, but like the blurb says, if you’re looking for “…an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained” (not to mention a hysterically funny bit of zombie erotica) this is the place. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A Finalist for the Best Translated Book Award Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact. A Caribbean zombie--smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company--becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become "a real person." In the process, three of his closest collaborators (cerebral and calculating Isadore, wide-eyed and sentimental Mathilde, and rambunctious Patricia), guide the reluctant and baffled scientist through the unpredictable intersections of love, passion, empathy, and humanity. But the playful maze of jealousy and amorous intrigue that a living being would find easy to negotiate represents an insurmountable tangle of dangerous ambiguities for our "undead" protagonist. Wicked Weeds is put together from Isadore's scrapbook, where she has collected her boss' scientific goals and existential agony, as well as her own reflections about growing up as a Haitian descendant in the Dominican Republic and what it really means to be human. The end result is a precise combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction, Latin American style. Wicked Weeds, A Zombie Novel combines Cabiya's expertise in fiction, graphic novels and film to create a memorable literary zombie novel of a dead man's search for his lost humanity that can now take its place alongside other leading similar novels like Jonathan Mayberry's Patient Zero, S.G. Browne's Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, Daryl Gregory's Raising Sony Mayhall, World War Z by Max Brooks, and The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell. As for the novel's immersion in orality and Caribbean folk traditions and noir it can very well align with Wade Davis' The Serpent and the Rainbow and Karen Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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