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Chargement... The Dragon Keeper: A Novel (édition 2012)par Mindy Mejia (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I won this book some time ago and I was glad I did. I very much enjoyed the story and if I could I would share with my friends. A different story from most we read. Not real heavy with really likeable characters. A joy! Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I love zoos and that is one of the reasons I requested this book in ER. It turned out to be more than just zoo-stuff! I enjoyed getting to know the characters and see them evolve in the story. There was romance, healing, science and drama, all around good story! I'll watch for more by this author. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This was an unexpected delight - by the time I started reading it, I'd entirely forgotten why I'd chosen it originally, and in isolation the title led me to expect a fantasy novel. Instead, these dragons and their keeper are contemporary American fiction at it's muddled, beautiful and human best. Meg is a fascinating protagonist, and she and her colleagues - and her dragons - felt very real, which kept me turning the pages, desperate to know how things would work out. (It's also that rare creature - a debut novel from an American MFA graduate that doesn't taste generic MFA-lit-fic'y. It's beautifully crafted, but it also has something to say, and the craft amplifies rather than overpowers) Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This was quite an unusual book about on the life of Meg, who is in charge of the lizards and reptiles at the ‘Zoo of America’, and the complications in both her private and her work life. The first part skips backwards and forwards either side of the hatching of the eggs of Jata a Komodo dragon, which can be a bit disconcerting at first, but means that you gradually find out background relevant to what is happening in the story rather than getting this all first. Overall I thought the book worked well and would recommend it as something a bit different in the way of novels. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her... Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care since it arrived at the zoo from Indonesia. Jata brings the exotic to Meg's Minnesotan life: an ancient, predatory history and stories of escaping to freedom. A species that became endangered soon after being discovered, Komodos have a legacy of independence, something that Meg understands all too well. Meg has always been better able to relate to reptiles than to people, from her estranged father to her live-in boyfriend to the veterinarian who is more concerned with his career than with the animals' lives. Then one day, Meg makes an amazing discovery. Jata has produced viable eggs-without ever having had a mate. Faced with this rare phenomenon, Meg must now defend Jata's hatchlings from the scientific, religious, and media forces that converge on the zoo to claim the miracle as their own. Finally forced to deal with the very people she has avoided for so long, Meg discovers that opening herself up comes with its own complications. And as she fights to save the animal she loves from the consequences of its own miracle, she must learn to accept that in nature, as in life, not everything can be controlled. Mindy Mejia's gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve. - Publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Mejia’s protagonist, Meg Yancy is an endearingly flawed character. She is passionate, she over-reacts and she self-sabotages – she understands the behaviour of animals more than she does people. People make promises they don’t keep – animals don’t make promises.
In less skilled hands the story elements could have combined to form something pedestrian. I was impressed by the way Mejia structured this novel to aid character development, enhance suspense and imbue gravitas. The hatching of the Komodo dragon eggs is the anchor point around which the entire story is framed. Each chapter is signposted as either before or after ‘Hatching’ by x hours, days or months, and the narrative moves back and forwards over time slowly uncovering pieces of the puzzle. Read full review >> ( )