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Lädt ... Ringvon André Alexis
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A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs From their first meeting, it was clear that Gwen and Tancred were meant to be together. But, as we know, the course of true love never did run smooth. Gwen's mother, intuiting that her daughter is in love, gives her a magic ring that has been passed down through endless generations of mothers and daughters. This ring grants its wearer the opportunity to change three things about her beloved. Like all blessings, this may also be a curse. Ring turns the literary romance upside down and shakes out its pockets. It's a playful meditation on the past, on magic, on race, on honour, on faith, and, yes, on love. Following on the heels of Pastoral, Fifteen Dogs, The Hidden Keys, and Days by Moonlight, Ring completes Alexis's Quincunx, a group of five genre-bending, philosophically sophisticated, and utterly delightful novels. "A great novel doesn't try to answer questions, but, like Days by Moonlight, complicates them. " --The Globe and Mail on Days by Moonlight "This imaginative travelogue will amuse readers even as it raises weightier issues. " --Publishers Weekly on Days by Moonlight "I'm far from being a dog person, but as a book person I loved this smart, exuberant fantasy from start to finish. " --The Guardian on Fifteen Dogs "A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized. " --Kirkus Reviews on Fifteen Dogs Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I enjoyed following Gwen’s story even when though I found her predicaments, or what she thought of as predicaments, to be not very much at all. Falling in love at first sight (and vice versa) with someone who just happens to have half a billion dollars in the bank does pose challenges, I suppose. As does hobnobbing with the ultra rich in Toronto. (Curiously the ultra rich here are great supporters of poetry, literature, painting, and other fine arts, and they always pay their taxes — which flags this as fantasy, I guess.) However, although more than a third of the novel takes place before the magic ring comes on the scene, it still wasn’t enough time to get a sense of Gwen as a fully fledged person. And that’s surprising. Because Alexis is nothing if not a master wordsmith. So does he then intend for me to be thinking this? I just don’t know.
If you’ve read any of the other novels in Alexis’ Quincunx series (and I hope you will have read them all), then you’ll find this one riddled with characters and incidents that first appeared in earlier novels. The most significant of these, of course, is the character Tancred. Here, Tancred’s role is constrained to being “the rich guy that our heroine falls in love with.” He’s almost too nice for words. Alas, there isn’t much more to him on the evidence of this novel. Or maybe a passionate story of love between two really nice people will inevitably fall flat.
In any case, I’m still recommending this novel for everyone who has enjoyed earlier Alexis novels. But newcomers might better start with one of those. ( )