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Lädt ... Bare en mor (2020. Auflage)von Roy Jacobsen
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Op een eiland waar bijna niemand woont, heeft elke aankomst gevolgen, zelfs de aankomst van een simpele melkboot. "{B}eing a mother really turned her into a wreck." The saga of Ingrid Barroy and her family continues when Ingrid and her daughter Kaja return to the island after their journey across Norway and beyond in an attempt to discover what happened to Alexander, the Russian POW Ingrid sheltered on the island during the war. In addition to Kaja, Ingrid becomes the adoptive mother of sorts of a young boy Matthias. Matthias's mother has disappeared and his mother's husband, who believes, as does all the town, that Matthias is actually the son of a German soldier who was stationed there during the war, abandons the boy on Ingrid's island. A large part of the story involves trying to discover Matthias's actual parentage, and Ingrid's fears that he may be taken from her. These story lines resonate with the trauma and damage still left from WW II, where some villagers collaborated with the Germans and some did not. There is also of course the ongoing rhythm of day to day life on the island, and the lives of the fishermen who go to sea each year and the dangers they face. The island is not immune to tragedy. I enjoyed the book, though maybe not as much as the others. I will say that I don't know how it could be read unless you have read the previous three books. The translator in a short forward briefly described what had gone before, but even with that "refresher" I had difficulty at times remembering who was who and what had happened previously. It was like stepping into the middle of a plot driven movie and trying to follow the story. 3 stars There is a complicated simplicity in the Barroy Chronicles, this lovely saga of life on a tiny Norwegian island inhabited by one family. Ingrid has inherited the island when her parents died and had fallen in love with an injured Russian refugee from WWII who had washed up on Barroy in a shipwreck, only to have him leave her pregnant with a daughter, Kaja, as he tries to return to his homeland after the war. Her aunt Barbro, a bit simple-minded, has also had a child by a Swedish sailor, and as other children are brought to the island during and after the war, they have grown, married, and had children. A little boy, Mathias, was brought to Barroy from the mainland when his father and mother both disappeared, and he becomes beloved by Ingrid and Kaja as he adjusts to life on the island. Mathias' substantial inheritance, and his mother's reemergence as the lover of a Norwegian German sympathizer, who is Mathias' real father, creates drama on the quiet island. But the worst is yet to come. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheIngrid Barroy (4)
The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving" David Mills, Sunday Times "Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary Supplement A childless island is no island at all. Ingrid Marie Barrøy has returned to the island that bears her name, bringing up her daughter with the other children that came with the war, who will someday raise their own children until an island that was empty is singing once more with life. And soon another will arrive, a child of the war and an orphan of the peace, whom Ingrid will fight to make her own, and whose interests may, in time, collide with those of certain others on the island, forcing her to make a choice she will long regret. The sea brings the island all it has - herring for salting, eider ducks for down - but Ingrid knows, has always known, that one day it may wish to take something back. But until that day, she continues to live by one simple truth: There is no limit to what you can do with an island, the imagination sets the only limits, as with the sea. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw Reviews for The Unseen "Even by his high standards, his magnificent new novel The Unseen is Jacobsen's finest to date, as blunt as it is subtle and is easily among the best books I have ever read" Eileen Battersby, Irish Times "A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work . . . Rendered beautifully into English by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw, The Unseen is a towering achievement that would be a deserved Booker International winner" Charlie Connelly, New European. "A profound interrogation of freedom and fate, as well as a fascinating portrait of a vanished time, written in prose as clear and washed clean as the world after a storm" Justine Jordan, Guardian "The subtle translation, with its invented dialect, conveys a timeless, provincial voice . . . The Unseen is a blunt, brilliant book" Tom Graham, Financial Times. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)839.8238Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Norwegian literature Norwegian Bokmål fiction 2000–Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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