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Lädt ... We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) (Original 2003; 2006. Auflage)von Lionel Shriver
Werk-InformationenWir müssen über Kevin reden von Lionel Shriver (Author) (2003)
  
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  ) ponchie | Jan 13, 2014 |  Das Buch erklärt die Anlage-Umwelt-Problematik stark mit der Anlage - Kevin ist ein schwieriger, ja sadistischer Junge.Seine Eltern sind überfordert, die Mutter, weil sie eigentlich nie ein Kind wollte und mit Kevins Bindungsunfähigkeit nicht zurecht kommt, der Vater, weil er den Jungen vergöttert und die besorgniserregende Entwicklung nicht sehen kann. Das Buch ist keine leichte Kost, kein "schönes" Buch. Es ist auch aus meiner Sicht kein Buch über Schulmassaker, wie etwa "19 Minuten" von Jodi Picoult. Es ist eher ein Buch über eine dysfunktionale Familie bzw. darüber, wie ein schwieriges Kind (und andere Entscheidungen und Probleme) ein liebendes Paar in eine dysfunktionale Familie verwandeln kann. Es ist aber auch ein Buch über Mutterliebe - was am Ende dem Ganzen eine Aura tiefer Trauer und Mitgefühl verleiht. (  ) Wassilissa | Sep 21, 2012 | Zeige 3 von 3
 A powerful, gripping and original meditation on evil At a time when fiction by women has once again been criticised for its dull domesticity, here is a fierce challenge of a novel by a woman that forces the reader to confront assumptions about love and parenting, about how and why we apportion blame, about crime and punishment, forgiveness and redemption and, perhaps most significantly, about how we can manage when the answer to the question why? is either too complex for human comprehension, or simply non-existent.  The epistolary method Shriver uses, letters to Eva's absent husband, strains belief, yet ultimately that's not what trips us up. It's Eva's relentless negativity that becomes boring and repetitive in the first half of the book, the endless recounting of her loss of svelteness, her loss of freedom.  Maybe there are books to be written about teenage killers and about motherhood, but this discordant and misguided novel isn't one of them.  A little less, however, might have done a lot more for this book. A guilt-stricken Eva Khatchadourian digs into her own history, her son's and the nation's in her search for the responsible party, and her fierceness and honesty sustain the narrative; this is an impressive novel, once you get to the end. Bearbeitet/umgesetzt inAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Eva never really wanted to be a mother and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklyn. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.09)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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