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Claudia Hampton, bella, famosa e intrepida corrispondente dall'Egitto durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, e celebrata studiosa di storia negli anni successivi, sta morendo. E decide di raccontare la storia della sua vita, dei suoi amori e delle sue sconfitte: "Ma la cronologia mi irrita. Non c'è cronologia dentro di me. Io sono una miriade di Claudia che si muovono si mescolano e si dividono come scintille di luce sulla superficie dell'acqua". E così i ricordi cominciano a prendere forma in modo apparentemente disordinato, a comporsi in un mosaico di eventi e avvenimenti che coprono quasi un secolo di esistenza, dagli anni della sua infanzia, il primo dopoguerra, fino all'attualità dei nostri giorni.
- ISBN: 8882466604
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 216
- Data di uscita: 19-05-2005
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[U]nless I am a part of everything I am nothing. We are like waves in a vast ocean moving forward to break upon the shore and vanish, yet the ocean remains. Each wave has it’s own narrative, each person a starring role in the story of their own lives, yet all of us are a collective ocean of minor and Leggi tutto
“The voice of history, of course, is composite. Many voices; all the voices that have managed to get themselves heard. Some louder than others, naturally. My story is tangled with the stories of others – Mother, Gordon, Jasper, Lisa, and one other person above all; their voices must be heard also, t Leggi tutto
Tiger tiger burning bright The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight. How can a novel in which the protagonist is lying in a hospital room awaiting death be so voraciously vivid? Lately watching Fortunes of war (with Emma Thompson and Kenn Leggi tutto
The narrator announces this is to be a history of the world. What she means, we soon learn, is that it will be a history of the world as experienced by her. We have all been exposed at certain times of our life to moments of history which mysteriously remain an essential part of who we are. Perhaps
I liked this when it wasn't posturing. But I felt it postured a lot. And largely fell short of its admirable ambitions. I generally felt Lively is probably a more conservative novelist at heart and this was her attempt at pushing back her boundaries, the literary equivalent of an habitually conventi Leggi tutto
Utterly compelling historical novel that plays with time and perspective in fascinating ways. Claudia Hampton sets out to tell the history of the world. And she does exactly that. Only it's her own private world she describes, with all its secrets. Lively does a masterful job of shifting perspective Leggi tutto
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