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Lädt ... Café Hyena (Plán odprevádzania) (Original 2008; 2012. Auflage)von Jana Beňová
Werk-InformationenSeeing People Off von Jana Beňová (2008)
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"Seeing People Off follows Elza and Ian, a young couple living in a humongous apartment complex outside Bratislava where the walls play music and talk, and time is immaterial."--Amazon.com. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There are some lovely turns of phrase in Seeing People Off, where, in a store's checkout line, the codes "jump[] onto the receipts with a crackling sound [l]ike a fire" and the snow resembles "gray bony faces full of holes and hollows." Like Schaub, I enjoyed the dark humor evident in a taxi driver's droll commentary on the events of 9/11:
"It's really a bit too much, they've overdone it," commented the taxi driver who took us home from the Milan Rastislav Štefánik Airport. "If they blew up a bus or an embassy, I'd understand. That's OK. The Americans are up to their ears in it. Some two-story building or a train, that's one thing. But two skyscrapers, that's too much, they really went overboard."
I also appreciated the chapters entitled "Winter," in which Elza records snatches of conversations overheard from neighboring tables in a café, and "Seeing People Off," in which she traces Ian's mother's slow decline toward death.
In his 2010 review of Seeing People Off, Alexander Halvoník observed that "much will remain unread, the accent from some things will be transferred to others and many things will take on new dimensions." Although too much of Seeing People Off remained unread for my taste, its short length makes it easy for other readers to test the waters for themselves.
This review was based on a free ARC provided by the publisher. ( )