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Chargement... Dead Europe (2005)par Christos Tsiolkas
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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. Jesus! That was harrowing! Good, but difficult. ( ) I picked this book up in Munich thinking it was a new work by Tsiolkas - one following "The Slap" but it turns out this is the earlier book. It is a wonderfully written, confronting, thought provoking and sometimes just outright disgusting novel and I'm not sure I'm able to describe what it all "means". The constant anti-Semitic references, the focus on blood and history, the images of a Europe that is dying - these themes all carry deeper meanings which I am still trying to fathom. I do find Tsiolkas to have a rather negative view of humanity and our motivations. The book is not always pleasant reading but it is definitely worth reading. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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'Dead Europe sets sharp realism against folk tale and fable, a world of hauntings and curses against a fiercely political portrait of a society. The energy in the writing, the pure fire in the narrative voice and the fearlessness of the tone make the novel immensely readable, as well as fascinating and original, and establish Christos Tsiolkas in the first rank of contemporary novelists.' Colm Toibin Isaac is a photographer in his mid-thirties, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In his mother's mountain village he encounters a Balkan vampire. Subsequently, as his journey continues across Italy, Eastern Europe and Britain he discovers that ghosts keep appearing in the photographs he takes, providing clues to a family secret and tragedy. Parallel to Isaac's story we are in the Greece of World War II. A peasant family is asked to provide protection to a Jewish boy fleeing the Germans. It is this boy who will become the vampire. From the mountains of Greece to the inner-city streets of 1960s Melbourne, we trace the journey of this malevolent force as it feeds on generation after generation of Isaac's family, seeking revenge and justice. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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