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Chargement... The Curfew (2011)par Jesse Ball
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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. Quite enjoyed the allegory and thought experiment. Keeping to reread in different circumstances. ( ) I went back to the Chautauqua 2112 reading list for The Curfew. The author, Jesse Ball will be speaking at Chautauqua while we're there this summer. The book is about a man and his mute daughter living in a grim police state where, for example, music is banned and citizens are required to work seven days per week. The police are all under-cover so you never know when you're being watched. It's a short but very powerful book.
Jesse Ball is hardly without talent, but, for me, The Curfew is far more interesting as a window into the mechanisms behind publishing, bookselling, and the crafting of a public persona than it is as a literary text. Prix et récompenses
William and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William's wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens. But when an old friend seeks William out, claiming to know what happened to his wife, William must risk everything. He ventures out after dark, and young Molly is left to play, reconstructing his dangerous voyage, his past, and their future. An astounding portrait of fierce love within a world of random violence, The Curfew is a mesmerizing feat of literary imagination. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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