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Chargement... Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory (édition 2014)par Patrick McGuinness
Information sur l'oeuvreOther People's Countries: A Journey into Memory par Patrick McGuinness
   Books Read in 2021 (1,185) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  CarltonC | Feb 1, 2021 |    ) jon1lambert | Jun 25, 2014 | McGuinness's mother comes from Bouillon in southern Belgium, and it is basically his second home despite his British upbringng (Irish grandparents, childhood in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Welsh-speaking children). It's a lovely exploration of the historic town and its people, and the author's own background, through very short snippets of narrative, occasional poetry, and the auithor's own photographs. you don't have to be Belgian or even like Belgium much to appreciate it (though it will make more sense if you have enough French to understand why it's funny that Kevin Keegan should be known to locals as Kevin Qui Gagne). A lovely book. ( ) nwhyte | May 16, 2014 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics, full of charm, menace and wonder. To the days before television, to Marie Bodard's sweetshop, to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud, holed up whilst on the run from family, creditors and the law. This exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other people's countries, into the spaces they have populated with their memories, and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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For some reason, although I usually like this form of narrative and although I have been on holiday to the Ardennes area of Belgium, the book didn’t “reverberate” with me.
First there is memory, its sleights of mind;
then comes forgetting: the traitor betrayed. (