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Lädt ... The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel (2020. Auflage)von Akwaeke Emezi (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 124000 Sexual Coming of Age This tenderly written book explores the meaning of identity, friendship and love. Although the title and opening scene let's you know that the protagonist is brutally murdered, the book also deals with topics such as adultery, incest, and bigamy. It also contains explicit sexual content. 3.5? I think this was good but I felt frustrated how the title character is obscured from their own story. There's a sort of narrative reason for this with a reveal at the end but not only is everything we see of them from an outside perspective, even that is frustratingly minimal. In the end they feel boiled down to one characteristic that's treated as part of a twist ending even though it's really not that surprising. At the same time the relationships and inner lives of the characters we spend more time with also feel frustratingly opaque. There's one chapter that's about a bystander that gives an entire life story, explaining everything about where he's at and his actions and he's only relevant due to witnessing something. Yet we never really get a feel for why any of the other major characters are friends with the title character even. People have relationships but there's no sign of why, they just happen. To an extent this is obviously a narrative choice - when telling a story from after someone has died, what warps the world of the people left behind is their absence, and we're experiencing some of that. It's just... maybe this is me personally relating to the title character too hard and emotionally, but I really wanted somehow for the narrative to do justice to them, to let them speak, to let them be, to let them be fully formed, not an absence. It's not that it's a bad book in any way at all, it's just. Personally I struggled with that.
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