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Chargement... The Girl in the Tree (édition 2020)par Şebnem İşigüzel
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Girl in the Tree par Sebnem Isigüzel (Author)
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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. A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold. So, I this is like a 2.5 star upgraded to a 3 star review for me. I have a lot of mixed feelings about the book. I do like the idea of this author being a foreign author writing about a foreign place, in this case Turkey. This provides a different perspective from that which we are so used to hearing about. The main character here, a young Turkish girl known by the moniker the girl in the tree, is a disadvantaged youth who experiences a series of personal tragedies in her young life. Perhaps out of guilt and frustration she forfeits her conventional life, for a burden less life in the trees of the local park. She makes a choice to live her life in these trees supported only by what the trees can provide her or by what she can steal from innocent park goers. Her commitment is questioned when a young Turkish bellboy from the neighboring hotel notices her in the tree and makes his efforts to become her new best friend and provider, giving her supplies and access to empty hotel rooms so she can clean herself up. Throughout the book, the girl in the tree tells her story of what led her to this life in the tree. Her love for the bellboy makes her question her resolve to stay in the tree. The narrative style is unusual as it told as a first hand account of a young girl who is talking to the reader as a friend. It also jumps around a lot. I would have hoped for a different ending after investing almost 400 pages worth of reading. Thank you to Netgalley for the copy. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl's coming of age amid violent unrest--and her unexpected escape. A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul's centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork's nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold. Then, unexpectedly, comes a soul mate with a shared destiny. A lonely boy working at a nearby hotel looks up and falls in love. The two share stories of the fates of their families, of a changing city, and of their political awakenings in the Gezi Park protests. Together, they navigate their histories of love and loss, set against a backdrop of societal tension leading up to the tragic bombing that marked a turn in Turkey's democracy--and sent a young girl fleeing into the trees. Narrated by one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction--as full of audacious humor and irony as she is of rage and grief--this unsparing and poetic novel of political madness, precarious dreams, and the will to survive brilliantly captures a girl's road to defiance in a world turned upside down, in which it is only from the treetops that she can find a grip on reality--and the promise of hope. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)894.3534Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Turkic languages Turkish Turkish fiction 2000–ÉvaluationMoyenne:
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O começo é interessante - principalmente por mostrar a vida contemporânea da Turquia, que não estamos acostumados a ler aqui no Brasil- mas o meio se arrasta e, no final, parece que a pessoa cansa e acelera a quantidade de informações jogadas para dar um fechamento, para terminar o livro logo.
A garota fica choramingando a história toda que a professora de literatura falou mal do jeito que ela escreve, que ela merecia mais, mas realmente ela usa mal esse recurso de criar tensão por interrupção e fragmentos do passado.
A avó da garota, as tias, a mãe e as duas amigas são bem mais interessantes que ela, e olha que ela foi morar em cima de uma árvore. ( )