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Chargement... Malena c est un nom de tango (1994)par Almudena Grandes
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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. Leído A long, complicated family saga, narrated in the first person by a woman born (like the author) in 1960, but with a lot of back-story set during the Civil War and reaching back further to colonial Peru and the Conquistadors. The central theme seems to be the way bourgeois Spanish society lays down role-models of "good" and "bad" behaviour, especially for women, and the way real people fail to fit into those role-models. And of course the trouble with that is that you risk setting up an equally-coarse set of clichés in the other direction, in which all the "domestic angels" turn out to be cynical, manipulating, selfish hypocrites and all the "whores" turn out to be open, generous and honest. Grandes doesn't quite do that, but she comes perilously close. What's more, she fails to avoid the many easy plot-temptations offered by a storyline that involves two pairs of twin sisters. So, not a very satisfying book, but it is good as an immersive, long (beach-)read, with lots of good dialogue, steamy sex-scenes, and long Madrid bar-crawls (and their attendant hangovers). What a book, what a life. Now I've finished reading, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted from me. I'm glad I'm done, I didn't particularly like the book, missed half of the complicated family realations, despite my reading pace was slow. I don't think I'll pick up a book from this author again, unless it has a completely different subject. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Malena tiene doce años cuando recibe, sin razón, y sin derecho alguno, de manos de su abuelo el último tesoro que conserva la familia : una esmeralda antigua, sin tallar, de la que ella nunca podrá hablar porque algún día le salvará la vida. A partir de entonces, esa niña desorientada y perpleja, que reza en silencio para volverse niño porque presiente que jamás conseguirá parecerse a su hermana melliza, Reina, la mujer perfecta, empieza a sospechar que no es la primera Fernández de Alcántara incapaz de encontrar el lugar adecuado en el mundo. Se propone entonces desenmarañar el laberinto de secretos que late bajo la apacible piel de su familia, una ejemplar familia burguesa madrileña. A la sombra de una vieja maldición, Malena aprende a mirarse, como en un espejo, en la memoria de quienes se creyeron malditos antes que ella y descubre, mientras alcanza la madurez, un reflejo de sus miedos y de su amor en la sucesión de mujeres imperfectas que la han precedido. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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