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Lädt ... Pravdavon Edward Docx
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I picked up this book based on the Russian title - "pravda" means "truth" in Russian. Some of the "truth" started emerging early in the book, but the most shocking part is revealed in the last pages. I have never heard of the author but was intrigued. The book was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. To say that this is a very insightful book about a dysfunctional family is to say very little. It is much more than that. A story of agony and turmoil. With a lot of subthemes. In describing books, we often talk about "developed" or "not so developed" characters. Well, I felt that this author actually lived through his characters, every one of them. The writing style at first appears a bit pretentious but then it grows on you, and in the end I can only call it very eloquent. At times, even too wordy - the author has the tendency of enhancing on the description by adding on to it in subsequent sentences, each one with a slightly different shade (here is the most succinct example of it: "... a wearer of grievance, a bearer of grudge"). All in all, I was quite taken with the writing - it was Mr. Docx's second book but it felt as if I were reading a seasoned writer. I also felt a little influence of Dostoevsky here. The story unravels slowly, as if peeling off the layers of the plot, and in the end there is quite an unexpected surprise. I must also mention his superb (if highly ironic!) description of conservatives and liberals in England (or it can be applied to any place) and his intriguingly sound take on Russian character. I was impressed with the author's knowledge of Russian words, all except one name (Artyom), spelled correctly, which, sadly, is not the case with all novels using Russian phraseology. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father, Nicholas, a brilliant and manipulative libertine. Unknown to the twins, their mother had long ago abandoned a son, Arkady, a pitiless Russian predator now determined to claim his birthright. Aided by an ex-seminarian whose heroin addiction is destroying him, Arkady sets out to find the siblings and uncover the dark secret hidden from them their entire lives. Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Pravda is a darkly funny, compulsively readable, and hauntingly beautiful chronicle of discovery and loss, love and loyalty, and the destructive legacy of deceit. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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So begins PRAVDA, in which Edward Docx has distilled the classic Russian novel to its essence.
Each chapter is devoted to one character's point of view and the narrative twists and turns through past and present, through secrets, betrayals and lies to the final truth.
Docx's rich, descriptive prose makes PRAVDA a powerful,moving experience. ( )