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Chargement... The Graphologist's Apprenticepar Whiti Hereaka
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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. This was a good depiction of the most thoroughly unpleasant viewpoint character I've had the misfortune of reading for a very very long time. January is self-centered, chronically socially inept without ever so much as regretting (on those rare occasions when she cares enough to notice) how much she hurts people, and, it eventually emerges, dangerously delusional. Now, I generally like unreliable narrators. But this book I nearly put down long before I was convinced that we were intended to dislike her or distrust her point of view. Only the long commute and something nagging compelled me to open it up again. The titular graphologist, Mae Raine, was more tolerable, but it must have been a good halfway through the novel before we met her, and even so, it's only in comparison to January. She's still obsessively focused inwards - in her case, on her vocation and the legacy she wants to pass on to someone before she dies. January's friend Alice could have been sympathetic but she has too little self. She's in the novel primarily to be treated like a doormat and then in the last scene to happen to want a friend just when January decides to say sorry and attempt to be a friend. The problem is that I don't know if January's capable of being a friend, even if she still wants to be a day or two beyond the end of the book. Aside for the whole erotomania deal, for which she seriously needs professional help for the safety of herself and others, this is someone who can't even keep it together long enough to organise decorations for a party. On the whole, my favourite character was Jasmine. Now she I think would make a better apprentice. If the book had started half the novel in, and drawn more parallel/contrast between Mae trying to teach January and finding it easy to teach Jasmine, I could have really enjoyed it. Not that this would have been the story the author was trying to tell; but it would have lived up better to the title. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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When January's obsession with a married man begins to jeoperdise her emotional stability, she decides to risk it all and respond to a mysterious card with the words Tell me a secret Not content with her home life or work place, January takes comfort in reading romance novels but is suddenly brought back to reality when she meets the secret keeper, Mae, a graphologist. The Graphologists Apprentice is a story about friendship and love and how both can be found in unexpected places. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This year Whiti Hereaka (b. 1978) went on to win the $60,000 Jan Medlicott medal at the the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku. which inverts the legend of Hatupatu and the fearsome birdwoman Kurangaituku by narrating the story through Kurangaituku's perspective in an experimental form. So I'm late to be discovering what an exceptional author Hereaka is... but better late than never!
The central character in The Graphologist's Apprentice is January, who has made a complete break with her former life by changing her name by deed poll. She is alone and alienated from the people around her, from her job, and from a family never mentioned. As one of the characters says, January is...
Her inner commentary on the people around her is often very funny, but they are a sign that she is in psychological distress.
The firm's Christmas party is real torment:
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