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Lädt ... An Elegy for Easterly (2009. Auflage)von Petina Gappah
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Probably 3 1/2 stars, really, but I'm in a generous mood and the next-to-last story in this book was stellar. What stands out in this collection is the sense of place; Gappah does a great job with the milieu, and that held my interest even when the plots and characters were basically the same kinds of plots and characters one generally finds in literary short stories. ( ) Probably 3 1/2 stars, really, but I'm in a generous mood and the next-to-last story in this book was stellar. What stands out in this collection is the sense of place; Gappah does a great job with the milieu, and that held my interest even when the plots and characters were basically the same kinds of plots and characters one generally finds in literary short stories. 'the ability to laugh at life for fear of crying' By sally tarbox on 22 Aug. 2012 Format: Paperback Thirteen highly readable short stories set in troubled modern-day Zimbabwe amid the horrendous inflation ('some moron thought he was doing me the world's greatest favour by offering me nine hundred billion for a four stroke diesel generator'),the prevalence of AIDS, life in the townships and political corruption. Against this backdrop are tales both humourous and touching: the difficulties faced by even wealthy wives as they face an uncertain future if their husbands find a 'younger model'- or infect them with AIDS; the pressure put on childless women by a traditional society; the naivety shown by a Zimbabwean working abroad, taken in by a scam... Highly readable Really well written, but so depressing. There is humour, but it's very bleak, set against a backdrop of corruption, poverty, aids and infidelity. The worst thing for me about this book is that I know someone from Zimbabwe and remember the joy she had in the late 80s/early 90s. She now lives in economic exile in South Africa, because even for a Shona, the situation in Zimbabwe is too hard. This collection of stories reminded me that the people of Zimbabwe have been suffering for more than 20 years now. Depressing.
Petina Gappah was born in Zimbabwe and currently works as a lawyer in Geneva. This, her first published work of fiction, is a collection of 13 stories, all but one of which are set in her homeland and feature characters struggling with the hyperinflation, bureaucracy and misogyny that beset life in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. "More and more I have come to admire resilience," begins the epigraph, a poem by Jane Hirshfield. Yet sometimes laughter is the only form of resilience Petina Gappah's characters can manage, and it is the frequent humour in these stories that makes them remarkable, even if their outcomes can be tragic. Often satirical, occasionally lyrical, they are a delight. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenKeltainen pokkari (96) AuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his new job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlor brings unexpected riches; a politician's widow stands quietly by at her husband's funeral, watching his colleagues bury an empty casket. Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars, where wives can't trust even their husbands for fear of AIDS, and where people know exactly what will be printed in the one and only daily newspaper because the news is always, always good. In her spirited debut collection, the Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime. She takes us across the city of Harare, from the townships beset by power cuts to the manicured lawns of privilege and corruption, where wealthy husbands keep their first wives in the "big houses" while their unofficial second wives wait in the "small houses," hoping for a promotion. Despite their circumstances, the characters inAn Elegy for Easterlyare more than victims--they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as to endure it. They struggle with the larger issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams, and the yearning for something to anchor them to life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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