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Lädt ... Defenestratevon Renee Branum
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Do you have any family legends that haunt you? Well, the twins in this quirky, unique story had a grandfather who was supposedly thrown out a window, hence the title. Mother of the twins is obsessed with fear of family members falling to their deaths. Naturally, the twins also become obsessed with falling. They practically worship Buster Keaton, the king of pratfalls. In prose that is ethereal, imaginative, and eloquent the story unfolds. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Read it and see. Themes include the weight of family legend, mental illness, separation of parents and children, forgiveness, and twins' relationships. Lovely, poignant, and memorable, this is a great read. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"A wildly inventive, exhilarating debut narrated by a young woman meditating on her Czech ancestors' "falling curse," her twin brother's fall from a window, and the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart. Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family falls apart in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their "falling curse" began. There Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves. But their ties to the past and each other prove difficult to disentangle, and when they ultimately return to their midwestern home and Nick falls from a window himself, they are forced to confront the truths they've hidden from each other and themselves. Through this compelling, exuberant exploration of all the ways there are to fall-from defenestration in nineteenth century Prague to the pratfalls of their childhood idol Buster Keaton, from falling in love to falling midflight from an airplane-Defenestrate is a stunning, unsettling, and deeply original debut. Grappling with family myths, repression, and mental illness, Renee Branum shows us how stories reveal and conceal life's secrets and how they affect one particular family as they try to protect one another from their true history"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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