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Chargement... The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep (2017)par Juliet Butler
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'Do yourself a favour and read this wonderful book' ScotsmanBased on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. 'We're waiting. I squeeze my eyes shut and dig my fingers into Masha's neck where I'm holding her. She digs hers into mine. The curtains slowly open. I can't see anything because the spotlight is on us, bright as anything and blinding me, but I can hear the gasp go up. They always gasp.' Dasha cannot imagine life without her sister. Masha is feisty and fearless. Dasha is gentle, quiet and fears everything; from the Soviet scientists who study them, to the other 'defective' children who bully them and the 'healthies' from whom they must be locked away. For the twins have been born conjoined in a society where flaws must be hidden from sight and where their inseparability is the most terrible flaw of all. Through the seismic shifts of Stalin's communism to the beginnings of Putin's democracy, Dasha and her irrepressible sister strive to be more than just 'the together twins', finding hope - and love - in the unlikeliest of places. But will their quest for shared happiness always be threatened by the differences that divide them? And can a life lived in a sister's shadow only ever be half a life? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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After a comparatively happy few years in school, where they do well in their studies- and where Dasha finds her one and only romance- hopes for the future are cut short when the medical board discount their success and sentence them to an institution for rest of their lives.
And thus the twins spend decades in a grim, jail-like home, where nothing is their own and any disobedience may end in punishment....
There are a few friends along the way; but the main focus is the two very different personalities of the girls- fiercem violent, dominant Masha and the much more docile, academic and romantic Dasha. What must it be like when your desires to go somewhere, meet someone are rejected by your literal other half? When you getting drunk impacts physically on her? When the knowledge that the death of one of you will soon cause that of the other?
A very sobering read- the author spent much time with them, so this is based on interviews and official documentation. Makes you realise how the world has changed when it comes to treating the disabled as human beings. ( )