The red house
av Mark Haddon (forfatter).
Jonathan Cape 2012 Heftet
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Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela's stillborn daughter. "The Red House" is about the extraordinariness of the ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight characters together with those fainter, stranger voices - of books and letters and music, of the dead who once inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the landscape in which it sits. Once again Mark Haddon, bestselling author of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" and "A Spot of Bother" has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.
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Forlag Jonathan Cape
Utgivelsesår 2012
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780224096416
EAN 9780224096416
Omtalt sted England
Språk Engelsk
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Det var en større leseglede å lese de to foregående bøkene hans. Han hadde flere gode refleksjoner over ting karakterene opplevde i bøkene, morsommere vinklinger, sære og underfundige betraktninger enn her. Det betyr imidlertid ikke at jeg ikke vil anbefale denne, men skal du lese noe av denne forfatteren vil jeg anbefale en av de to foregående bøkene hans først.
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En ganske normal "problematisk-familie-på-tur"-roman. Personlig syns jeg fortellermåten er litt slitsom, men det er driv og spenning i handlingen og Haddon leverer som vanlig.
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What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
If you can't be alone you join a gang, you drink instead of going home, you marry the first person who comes along because you're scared of going back to an empty house.
Norah siterer The red house av Mark Haddon (side 16)
09:37, 5. januar 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
They had spent twenty years avoiding one another and he couldn't remember why.
Norah siterer The red house av Mark Haddon (side 202)
07:59, 7. januar 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
He had always seen his self-suffiency as an admirable quality, a way of not imposing upon other people, but he could see now that it was an insult to those close to you.
Emilie Geist siterer The red house av Mark Haddon (side 235)
20:52, 19. oktober 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.
How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
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