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Sinossi
Siamo alla fine degli anni Settanta a Toronto quando Felicia, studentessa diciannovenne proveniente da una piccola e non meglio identificata isola caraibica, e Edgar, viziato rampollo di una ricca famiglia tedesca, si incontrano in una stanza d'ospedale dove le loro madri sono ricoverate. Tra i due nasce una strana relazione che si interrompe bruscamente non appena lei rimane incinta. Passano gli anni e Felicia e il figlio Army prendono in affitto il seminterrato dell'abitazione di Oliver, un uomo divorziato di origini portoghesi, padre di Heather e Hendrix. Army non ha mai conosciuto Edgar, eppure il legame genetico tra i due è innegabile: del padre ha gli stessi comportamenti, gesti e predilezioni, in particolare l'attrazione per i soldi e le donne. Quarant'anni dopo il loro primo incontro, le strade di Felicia e Edgar - che nel frattempo ha conosciuto il figlio - si incrociano di nuovo, lì dove tutto era cominciato... "Riproduzione" è un romanzo gioioso e poetico, una riflessione sui legami di sangue, sull'evoluzione del concetto di famiglia, sul confronto tra culture diverse e sul delicato equilibrio tra la vita e la morte.
- ISBN: 1259520218
- Casa Editrice: Keller
- Pagine: 694
- Data di uscita: 24-11-2021
Recensioni
This Giller shortlisted book opens with 23 sections, alternating between 19 year old Felicia Shaw from an undisclosed Caribbean island and Edgar Gross, an affluent, middle-aged German, heir to some vague family interest. They meet in a shared hospital room, tending to their respective mothers who ar Leggi tutto
At first, Army was 99 percent sure, then 98 percent sure, and now he was down to 96 percent sure that he couldn't be the father. It was biologically impossible from what he understood about reproduction. He would have had to had had, have had to had had, sex. Ian Williams is an award-winning poet
Reproduction is much more an exploration of form than narrative. The structure of the book itself reproduces: Part 1 in 23 sections to represent 23 chromosomes; Part 2 told by 4 people in 4 parts = 16; Part 3: 16x16 = 256; Part 4 = the story develops cancer and parts of the previous sections bleed i Leggi tutto
Winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada, Ian Williams' Reproduction is certainly formally ambitious (see other reviews for details) and, had the author been eligible, would have been an excellent fit for this year's Goldsmiths Prize in the UK. However for me the story: innovation ratio w Leggi tutto
As a reader I come across different categories of books : mediocre reads, books that are ok but I know I won’t read them again, really well written books that are rich thematically and the totally unique read, which appear in my life just once or twice a year. Reproduction is a Totally Unique Read. Ho Leggi tutto
This one, I think, would have gotten five stars from me just because of its sheer ambitiousness. I'm not a fan of experimental fiction, and frankly would probably not have requested this from NetGalley if I knew that's what this was. But, surprisingly, it worked for me on just about every level: sup Leggi tutto
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