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Chargement... Last Night in Montreal (édition 2009)par Emily St. John Mandel (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreDernière nuit à Montréal par Emily St. John Mandel
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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. “How deep in our genes is the longing for flight embedded? We always were a species of nomads.” ( ) A young woman is abducted by her father and they almost never stop traveling as she’s followed by a private investigator hired by her mother. Her boyfriend goes to Montreal to find her. Strange details (why did her mom cover a window and pick up broken glass before the police arrived?) appear throughout that come together in the end. My problem is there’s an awful lot of philosophizing that doesn’t change anything about the story. This could / should have been a short story and I think it would have been better for it. It felt muddled with all the extraneous parts that just felt like they were filling space. I even waited a long time to write a review to see if I felt differently later on. Nope. It was a short book but not short enough. I’m still ready to give another book I have by her a try. When I was a teenager my family took a trip up to Quebec on vacation one year. I came back home with a t-shirt that I often wore for many years that bore the province's motto - "Je me souviens", meaning "I remember". A touch ironic for me, not only because I refused to use any of my embarrassing high school level French while we were there, but also because I did not remember those French speaking Acadian ancestors of mine who were expelled from Canada after the British conquest in the 18th century and who were forced to flee to Louisiana. I found that history out later. It's also ironic for one of the main characters in this fantastic debut novel. Lilia was abducted by her father from his ex-wife when she was seven. She does not remember her life in the small Quebec town near the American border before the abduction. She does not remember why she has these scars on her arms. She does not remember her mother. She does not remember why her half-brother tells her "never come home". She and her father spend the next nine years fleeing from Quebec - always traveling, changing names, hiding from discovery. It's an anxious way to live and grow up. But she never felt at ease in the world. It couldn't be claimed that she was really a part of it, and from the specific night when her memories began (ice against window, lost bunny, snow), the traditions of the world were foreign to her. She picked up what she could from books and television shows, noting carefully the existence of two-parent families, houses, schools, family dogs, memorizing intriguingly home-specific phrases like latchkey kid and back garden and state-of-the-art kitchen appliances and basement. She moved over the surface of life the way figure skaters move, fast and choreographed, but she never broke through the ice, she never pierced the surface and descended into those awful beautiful waters, she was never submerged and she never learned to swim in those currents, these currents: all the shadows and light and splendorous horrors that make up the riptides of life on earth. Then as a young woman she receives a letter from Montreal - come and I will tell you what you don't remember. It's information wanted for information to give. There will be remembering and wishing for never knowing. One person will emerge okay. One person will not. One person will be spun out by the chaotic turbulence unleashed. Ultimately for me it's a sad novel, but well worth reading. I really felt for all of the characters in these pages; add to that success the wonderful writing and I was completely hooked into this one.
I've just discovered Emily St. John Mandel. I had the good fortune to come across her first novel, Last Night in Montreal, while browsing at my local library. I was so entranced by it that I immediately headed out to my favorite independent bookstore to buy my own copy. I knew it belonged with all those other books on my bookshelves that make me happy just knowing that they're there, within easy reach (whether or not I actually re-read them). And when, shortly thereafter, I read Mandel's brand new second novel, The Singer's Gun, I was wowed by it, too. -- Nancy Pearl Listes notables
C'était une vielle histoire qui tenait en quelques phrases, à propos de fenêtres brisées et de neige ; et quand Michaela eut terminé, Lilia s'affaissa sur le banc, le regard levé vers elle, réduite au silence par le choc... Dans quelques minutes, la nuit imploserait dans le bruit et la tragédie, mais pour l'instant Michaela était près d'elle, à l'observer, et lui dit d'une voix douce : - Vous vous souvenez, maintenant ? Lilia acquiesça.Oui, me souviens de tout Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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