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Chargement... Les imaginations du sable (1996)par André Brink
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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. Outeniqua 1994: una città immaginaria nel Sudafrica di pochi mesi prima delle elezioni che porteranno Nelson Mandela al potere. Kristien, dopo molti anni di esilio a Londra, torna nella città dove ha trascorso la sua infanzia per vegliare la nonna, Ouma Kristina, in punto di morte, dopo che la sua casa è stata oggetto di un attentato terroristico. Ouma, ancora mentalmente vivacissima, è ossessionata dall'idea di non riuscire a trasmettere alla nipote la storia della famiglia e del Sudafrica. E le racconta tantissime storie affascinanti, tratte dalla realtà e dal mito, che finiscono per far emergere una sottile analogia tra le donne della famiglia e che arrivano fino a lei, Kristien, la ribelle e fuggitiva che ha lasciato il suo paese, e a sua sorella, Anna, che invece è rimasta e ha sposato un violento razzista e gli ha dato dei figli. Saranno proprio i rapporti tra le due sorelle a ricondurre il romanzo all'attualità per poi farlo sfociare nella tragedia finale Kristien, in de dertig, komt na 11 jaar Londen terug naar Zuid-Afrika omdat haar oma van over de 100 op sterven ligt na een bomaanslag op haar huis. Kristien schrijft de verhalen op die oma haar vertelt over de voormoeders: de vrouw die uit het water kwam, de vrouw met de vuurvliegjes, de vrouw die geen schaduw had en altijd zwanger was, de vrouw Samuel, de vrouw die een ijzeren gesteld had en tenslotte een zodanige omvang had dat ze de deur niet meer uit kon, de vrouw die het vreemde bouwsel waarin oma nog steeds woonde, had laten bouwen, het meisje dat in de kelder was opgesloten en was verdwenen, Oma Kristina en de moeder van Kristien. Zo geeft Oma aan Kristien "haar geheugen terug". Kristiens zus Anna heeft haar eigen problemen. Ze groeien naar elkaar toe, maar uiteindelijk kan Kristien haar niet helpen. Op de laatste dag dat Oma leeft zijn de eerste verkiezingen na de Apartheid. My theory is that Brink wrote this after reading a lot of Latin American fiction - this is the SA answer to House of Spirits. Although this is not as well known as his popular works, it still has a lot of merit. We see Brink's humorous and fantastical side (e.g. a woman with extremely long hair strangling her poor husband to death with her locks after an enthusiastic sexual encounter). I'm glad I read it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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@When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections. Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day. Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery.@@ Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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