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Lädt ... What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: An Observer Best Holiday Read Summer 2017
Werk-InformationenWhat It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky von Lesley Nneka Arimah
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 One of the pleasures of reading Lesley Nneka Arimah’s debut collection is the feeling of being thrown off balance: not knowing where this playful and adventurous new talent will take you next. The 12 stories that make up What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky are set in Nigeria and the US, sometimes moving between the two (the author was born in the UK, has lived in Nigeria and is now based in the States). Arimah’s focus is on the lives of girls and women, and while her perspective is often bleak, the collection is bracing and varied. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In "The Future Looks Good," three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in "Light," a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to "fix the equation of a person" - with rippling, unforeseen repercussions. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.04)
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Frauen spielen die Hauptrolle in diesen schönen, überraschenden Geschichten - sie sind stark und mutig, aber sie sehnen sich auch nach Geborgenheit und Glück. Nicht immer geht beides zusammen, in einer Männerwelt, in einer armen Welt.
So ist die Heldin aus "Licht" prototypisch, über die es heißt: "Noch fragt er sich nicht, woher sie es hat, dieses Feuer. Er weiß nur, dass es die Wölfe dieser Welt in Schach hält und dass er es niemals sterben lassen darf." (