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This is a story about emptiness; it is a story about how people long for what they do not have, and look for it everywhere and in everyone: it’s a story about empty people and empty lives. And in this Moore provides an excellent case study in the characterisation of Futh, a man who embodies an extre Leggi tutto

The twin central narratives of Alison Moore's Booker Prize nominated novel "The Lighthouse" take place over a week, following Futh and Ester, whose stories cross, diverge and finally converge. Futh is always referred to without title, and we never learn his forename. He is eminently forgettable: aft Leggi tutto

در دوران کودکی‌اش همیشه برای فرار کردن خیال پردازی می‌کرد. تصور می‌کرد روزی نام و ظاهرش را تغییر دهد و فرار کند طوری که هیچ‌کس او را نشناسد. البته هنوز هم به فرار فکر می‌کرد و حتی می‌توانست به هر جا که می‌خواهد فرار کند و زندگی جدیدی را آغاز نماید. می‌توانست در آلمان بماند یا به نیویورک برود. می‌توا Leggi tutto

I'm not sure what the opposite of "sublime" literature is called, but the British own it. Ever since reading the novels of Barbara Pym in the late 70s, I've marveled at this national genre of misery — drab constricted lives of careful economies and invincible repression. Sad food seems to be the abi Leggi tutto

I initially had a few qualms about this book, as it is somewhat slow in playing its hand on what it is really about, or where it's going - although I was never NOT invested in the story or characters. But by the unexpected, albeit somewhat inevitable ending, one realizes how firmly in control the au Leggi tutto

کتاب درمورد زندگی مردیه که در دوران کودکی، مادرش اون و پدرش رو ترک میکنه و سال ها بعد مرد با زنی ازدواج میکنه که احساس میکنه شبیه به مادرشه و انتظار داره همسرش جای خالی مادرش رو واسش پر کنه.. مردی که ناتوان از برقراری ارتباطه و توسط ادم های مختلف پس زده میشه و همسرش هم اونو ترک میکنه. شیوه ی روایت کت Leggi tutto