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Lädt ... Vandal Lovevon D. Y. Bechard
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HTML:An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love—winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in 2007—follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse—a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship—causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants’ line, exploring Jude Hervé’s career as a boxer in Georgia and Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man. Book Two traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François seeks the identity of his missing father for years, while his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape. Imbued throughout with a deep sensitivity to the physical world, Vandal Love is a breathtaking literary debut about the power of love to create and destroy—in our lives, and in our history. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I really enjoyed Book One. Bechard writes beautifully and there is an element of mysticism that I enjoyed. Book Two follows the runts - I think. I say I think because I found Book two very disjointed and hard to follow. I would be reading a passage and then it would end, I would reread the last few phrases, still be confused, move on and the same thing would happen over and over again. Aside from that I just did not like the characters in Book Two and did not always find their connections clear. At the very end the two branches of the family sort of come together, but personally I would have been happy to have stayed with the characters in Book One for a longer period of time and never have bothered with the runts! Five stars for Book One, zero stars for Book Two! ( )