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Chargement... Midwinter (original 2016; édition 2016)par Fiona Melrose (Auteur), Peter Noble (Narrateur), W. F. Howes Ltd (Publisher)
Information sur l'oeuvreMidwinter par Fiona Melrose (2016)
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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. Oh my goodness this is so, so sad. Really sad. Beautiful and lyrical, complex and grounding - but so sad! A father and son are learning how to live, to grieve and to communicate in the years following the death of Landyn's wife / Vale's Mum. Tragedy and emotion weigh heavy on the farm, the atmosphere is thick and oppressive, but full of love and a deep sense of unconditional love. In amongst the lives of the humans, animals appear and tangle themselves in the hauntings. Dogs, pigs, and a fox - all allow the men to show them love, to connect to their spirit and offer them strength and hope to continue. A powerful novel - but on tot read when you're feeling strong. Vale Midwinter lives on a farm with his father. His mother died whilst they lived out in Zimbabwe. Things have been strained between father and son. Vale and his friend Tom have a boating accident one night which doesn't really help matters. I have read this book for book group, and with it's title and it being December I thought it was going to be a Christmas themed read. I was wrong. This book for me was depressing. I couldn't fault the narrative of both Vale and Landry and really only kept on ploughing through just to see what happened. As it was for me, nothing much. Not really a lot I can say about this book. I didn't really enjoy it, not a lot happened and I found it very depressing. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are men of the land. Suffolk farmers. Times are hard and they struggle to sustain their property, their livelihood and their heritage in the face of competition from big business. But an even bigger, more brutal fight is brewing: a fight between each other, about the horrible death of Cecelia, beloved wife and mother, in Zambia ten years earlier. A past they have both refused to confront until now. Over the course of a particularly mauling Suffolk winter, Landyn and Vale grapple with their memories and their pain, raking over what remains of their fragile family unit, constantly at odds and under threat of falling apart forever. While Vale makes increasingly desperate decisions, Landyn retreats, finding solace in the land, his animals - and a fox who haunts the farm and seems to bring with her both comfort and protection. Alive to language and nature, Midwinter is a novel about guilt, blame and lost opportunities. Ultimately it is a story about love and the lengths we will go to find our way home. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As they recover from their injuries, the father and son start to look back at the events that brought them to this night. It is a painful process for both as they are full of anguish a decade after the event. Alternating between their perspectives we learn about the landscape of Zambia and how tough a life it was out there to Suffolk where they are now. As each man contemplates the sharp elements of his grief, we learn how they grasp for crumbs of comfort for the lady that they lost all that time ago.
It took a little while for me to get into this book. The flipping between the father and son and the harsh African and gritty English landscapes is slightly unnerving and the story seeps into you. I couldn't quite see where it was going, then something clicked in the story and Melrose's power as a storyteller made this quite a poignant book showing how people deal, or more correctly don't cope with, the long-term effects of grief. I liked the prose too, it has the same wistful melancholy to At Hawthorn time by Melissa Harrison. Will definitely be reading Johannesburg by her. ( )