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Chargement... Midnight Robber (2000)par Nalo Hopkinson
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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. I have to admit, I wanted to put this book down for most of the first 100 pages. Then, all of a sudden, kablamo!--it hit me right in the heart. The next 200+ pages were a gut-wrenching, tear-jerking adventure that I wish hadn't ended. Tan Tan is my hero! ( ) This was very easy to enjoy. It didn't take long to get into the flow of the Creole and the mixture of subtle sci-fi and mythology made an excellent backdrop for the brutal but liberating tale of Tan-Tan. I hope it's okay to say I felt a kindred-quality to Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Actually, there's a lot more going on than just SF and fantasy, the crypto-anthropology and sociology is worthy of someone like Octavia Butler or Ursula Le Guin. Smart writing with a lyrical, beating heart. For once I would've been pleased if it had been teased out to trilogy length. Great book, even if it took me a bit to flow into the creole, but right off the bat it starts and finishes with hard-SF fully mixing with Anansi-tale. What comes first? The Anansi-tale or the life of the Midnight Robber Tam-Tam? Who knows, we? Either way, both help define and refine and divine the tale. Who is the Midnight Robber? She be the one to save two for every life she take. She's the myth of she who punishes the wicked and help those in need. She's the wronged who repays in both the good and the bad, the one who lives in slavery and delivers from it. I'll be honest, it took a bit of effort to start my mind flowing in the right direction for the novel, and later, even when I knew what spoilers there be to make my heart bleed, it almost threw me to the ground to kick he side until he vomit. A few times, I even wanted to quit the novel. I couldn't take what Tam-Tam took. But I suffered through what she suffered through, saw her grow strong, and in her strength, I gained strength. Things can get very dark, indeed, but there is light. Eventually, there is hope and redemption, and the novel is good. The love is good. Maybe as I read more novels of this type, I'll enjoy Creole more. As it is right now, I'm stuck in limbo. Seen? The language is beautiful and strange, but the poetry is clear and bright. I'm so glad I was turned on to this form. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgivable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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