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Sinossi
Viene il momento per Etsuko, vedova giapponese che vive in Inghilterra, di levare lo sguardo dal presente doloroso e sofferto, per cercare in un altrove lontano un senso e una ragione. Ossessionata dal suicidio della figlia Keiko, Etsuko spinge il pensiero a Nagasaki subito dopo la guerra, dove nel deserto dei sopravvissuti maturava la sua gravidanza turbata. In questo percorso a ritroso nel tempo, Etsuko ricompone la storia parallela di Sachiko e della sua tormentata bambina: Butterfly come tante, Sachiko aspetta un amore, una partenza che non arriverà mai, mentre sua figlia affonda nell'angoscia di ricordi troppo crudi. Non ci sono spiegazioni o epifanie in questo racconto poetico e disadorno, che suggerisce più di quanto sveli; tutto resta sospeso e irrisolto.
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- Pagine: 178
- Data di uscita: 27-04-2009
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This book was so creepy and confusing that I opted to read it again. Not just because it is short, but because it is well written and it weaves a very intriguing mystery. Our narrator Etsuko’s oldest daughter recently hung herself in her apartment. Nikki, Etsuko’s daughter with her second husband, v Leggi tutto
This is a beautiful novel that calls for patient and careful reading. I admire the way it's constructed. The cares and concerns of three pairs of mothers and daughters are refracted off one another. The first two pairs live near a resurgent Nagasaki sometime toward the end of the American Occupation Leggi tutto
Every once in a while, a book surprises you on the way to its ending. After the first few pages of this book, I figured I knew what to expect - a well written realist novel about a displaced Japanese woman in England who reminisces about her youth while contemplating the choices her children have ma Leggi tutto
[Edited for spoilers and typos 9/10/22] A Japanese-born woman living in England reminisces with her daughter about the woman’s memories of life in Japan in Nagasaki after the war. The woman had two daughters by two husbands. We learn in the first couple of pages that the oldest daughter, born in Japa Leggi tutto
Even thought A Pale View of Hills is Ishiguro's debut novel, it shows the masterfulness of his craft in full display. Ishiguro here plays with his common themes of personal and collective memories, trauma and cultural differences between Japan and England. The main character, the first-generation im Leggi tutto
Surprise, surprise! The brilliant mind that concocted “Never Let Me Go” (which is, by the way, indubitably on my top ten list) first brought this masterpiece to a readership whose last brush with (this is no exaggeration:) PERFECTION was reading Mr. Graham Greene (“The Quiet American”). The novel is Leggi tutto
Ishiguro’s first novel is an intriguing read. If anything, it shows how much promise he had as an author and how much he could offer the literary world as he honed his skills. The Pale View of Hills is a very implicit book, and the conclusions I took from it may not even be conclusions at all. It’s a Leggi tutto
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