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Chargement... Sayonara Barpar Susan Barker
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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. Sayonara Bar has a darkness, an unsentimentality, that lends its propulsive, thrilling narrative a legitimate weight. Often when Western authors write things set in Japan, they are either filled with stereotypes or with the sort of ultra-careful respect that invariably leads to Other-izing of the characters. In other words, the characters are not separated from their culture. This does not happen here - Sayonara Bar is a very very good novel - action packed, full of tenderness and revelation. This book is brilliant, one of the best modern novels I've read all year. Written with a pen as delicate as the brushstrokes of a calligraphy artist, it presents a story told by three narrators, all in the first person. The reader is kept constantly on the alert, trying to discern which version, if any, can be trusted, as reality and delirium blend and weave their way through the pattern. The ending is tantalisingly unresolved, leaving you as uncertain as to the characters' true position as they are. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The modern geisha-girl scene is explored in this edgy, commercial literary novel set in a hostess bar in Osaka. Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other “economy geishas” are employed by the enigmatic Mama-san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing drinking games and taking turns in the karaoke booth. Mary is in love with Yuji, Mama-san’s handsome son. But Yuji’s loyalty is to the petty Yakuza gangster for whom he works. Watanabe, the introverted cook, watches Mary from the Sayonara’s kitchen. He exists in his own manga-fuelled fantasy of the fourth dimension, but when he perceives the danger of Mary’s growing obsession with Yuji, he resolves to protect her whatever the cost. Mr. Sato works for the Daiwa Trading Corporation. Obsessive overwork cannot cover the emptiness of his solitary life. Lured against his will to the Sayonara Bar by his boss, he finds himself returning there to escape his dead wife’s ghost. Sly and often very funny, Sayonara Bar spins a kaleidoscopic, genre-crossing tale of people cut adrift in a shrinking, globalized world. From the Trade Paperback edition. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Ghosts figure prominently in Barker's fiction and I love the way she uses them. ( )