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Chargement... Last Night in Nuuk (2014)par Niviaq Korneliussen
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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. Unusual and utterly engrossing in its raw honesty. I wouldn't say I like the style and if it were even a breath less honest it might not work for me; but it's well done, fresh, and insightful. I also really appreciate being able to read about Greenland from the inside. I hope that her latest work is translated soon. ( ) Last Night in Nuuk is a novel about five young Greenlanders who encounter one another on a night out. These chance encounters prove life-changing for all of them, in different ways. Each character's story leading up to and after these events is told in a separate chapter. As the chapters progress, the characters are fleshed out and the overall picture becomes clearer. Korneliussen delivers a couple of surprises along the way, shifting the reader's perspective considerably. This is a very interesting look at youth and queer culture in a stultifyingly conservative society. First some basics to the book. Nuuk is the capital city of Greenland. Each of the following five characters gets their own chapter in the book. Fia is in a doomed relationship with a man named Peter. “False smiles turning uglier.” “Bad sex should be avoided at all costs. My faked orgasms get harder to believe as time goes by…. The days are darker. The void in me expands.” Inuk is Fia’s brother, and is seeing a married male politician, but his best friend, Arnaq, reveals the relationship to everyone. Arnaq is a hard-partying bisexual woman who seems incapable of making a good decision. She is crushed when Inuk renounces their friendship after Arnaq went public about him. Arnaq doesn’t see it as her fault at all, because it was all about the heavy drinking. Ivik is at first part of a lesbian couple with Sara, but stopped being able to have sex with Sara, and then cheats with Arnaq. Sara was then sent into a near-suicidal depression and ends her chapter with #what a day. The author is being portrayed as a ground-breaking young writer. The back cover tells us. “In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Korneliussen creates a Greenlandic literature unlike any we have known before—queer, urbane, stream-of-consciousness, studded with textspeak and delirious with nightlife.” In a review from NPR, “The book is a heartbreaking yet hopeful look at what it’s like to be young and queer in one of the most isolated places in the world.” My brutally cold summary is that this book is about a world I’m not much interested in, written in a style that’s half interesting and half most annoying, and all in all, this book was a place I didn’t want to be in. Oh, AND, another thing, I hate when a book’s pages become screenshots from a smartphone relaying a character’s truncated language and conversation. Just maybe, I’m too old and critical, but this was not an engaging novel that drew me in at any point. I was trying to determine if there was a there there to this novel, but it didn’t ever start to show itself. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The highly acclaimed debut from an author profiled by the New Yorker as her country's "unlikely literary star," Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood. Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer hailed for creating "[her] own genre" ( Politiken , Denmark) in her witty and fearless debut Last Night in Nuuk . A work of daring invention about young life in Greenland, Korneliussen brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the capital city, Nuuk. Fia has recently sworn off sausage (men) only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Arnaq struggles to cope with her past as her hard-partying life spirals out of control and she betrays those she loves most. Inuk, Fia's brother, is forced to escape Greenland after political scandal implicates him, and confronts the true meaning of home. Meanwhile, Ivik and Sara must confront an important transition in their relationship. In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Korneliussen creates a Greenlandic literature unlike any we have known before--young, urbane, stream-of-consciousness, studded with textspeak and delirious with nightlife. With vibrant imagery and daring prose, Korneliussen writes unforgettably about finding yourself and growing into the person you were meant to be. A stunning debut from a brave new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a dashing entrance onto the literary scene and establishes her as a voice that cannot be ignored. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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