A Place Called Here
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Bindung: Taschenbuch
EAN: 9780007198917
ISBN: 0007198914
Label: Harpercollins
Hersteller: Harpercollins
Anzahl Seiten: 496
Erscheinungsdatum: Juni 04, 2007
Herausgeber: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.com:Acclaimed novelist Cecelia Ahern's
There's No Place Like Here tells the story of Sandy Shortt, an obsessive-compulsive Missing Persons investigator who suddenly finds herself in the mystical land of the missing, desperate to return to the people and places from whom she has spent her life escaping. With this imaginative fourth novel, Ahern, whose
P.S. I Love You was made into a major motion picture, continues to establish herself as not only an icon of Irish chick lit, but also a bold and creative thinker.
Continuing the whimsical trend she started with
If You Could See Me Now, Ahern asks readers to step outside the boundaries of reality, and enter a world where missing people (and possessions) from all over the globe congregate to start anew. When Sandy goes on an early morning jog and strays too far into the forest, she too finds herself "Here," the aptly named home of the missing. In addition to finding her lost socks, diaries, and stuffed animals, she also finds many of the people she has searched for throughout her career. From Bobby Stanley, who disappeared from his mother's house at the age of sixteen, to Terrence O'Malley, a librarian who disappeared on his way home from work at age 55, Sandy is quickly reunited with the people she has come to know only through photos and heartbreaking memories shared by devastated loved ones who enlisted her services. Of course, finding these people and possessions only makes Sandy realize how much she has missed out on in her real life, most notably her concerned parents and her on again off again boyfriend Greg.
There's No Place Like Here is often predictable and the premise is a bit hard to swallow at times. Still, readers who take the leap will be rewarded with what is ultimately a witty, compassionate, and captivating love story.
--Gisele Toueg
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Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal - whether it is the sock that canished in the washing machine, the car keys she misplaced or the graver issue of finding people who have vanished from their loved one...
At the beginning the book was difficult to understand but having read the first chapters, one can't stop trying to find out what has happedend to all the missing things and people.
When Sandy Shortt (who is by the way quite tall) goes missing as well, the readers are captured.
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Ich hab das Buch gerade durch. Leider!! Es hätte ruhig noch ein bisschen länger sein dürfen. Die Geschichte ist einfach toll und wunderschön geschrieben. Ich bin froh, dass das Ganze kein kitschiger Liebes- bzw. Romantikroman ist!
Gekauft hatte ich "A Place Called Here" eigentlich nur wegen des tollen Covers. Wer nicht ganz phantasielos ist und keine Liebesschnulze lesen möchte aber trotzdem gern ein Buch mit "Gefühlen" liest, dem kann ich dieses Buch auf jeden Fall empfehlen!
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Hat sich nicht jeder schon einmal die Frage gestellt, wieso man immer nur eine Socke findet oder sich die Haare gerauft, um diesen ganz bestimmten Gegenstand zu finden, den man gerade noch in der Hand hatte?
Die Hauptfigur Sandy Shortt hat einen Hang dazu, persönliche Dinge zu verlieren. Die Suche nach diesen Dingen führt sie in einen Beruf, der kein wirkliches Privatleben zulässt, verhilft ihr zu einem besonderen Leben und zu einer außergewöhnlichen Erfahrung.
Kurweilig, fesselnd und überraschend! Da bekommt der Job in einem Fundbüro ganz neue Qualitäten!
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Ich habe bisher auch alle andere Bücher von Cecilia Ahern gelesen, allerdings auf Deutsch. Von diesem bin ich absolut begeistert. Es reißt einen mit und spätestens ab der Hälfte muss man ständig an die Hauptcharaktere denken, auch wenn das Buch einmal nicht gerade zur Hand liegt. Die Personen sind authentisch und ihre Handlungen und Gefühle nachvollziehbar. Vor allem die Rückblicke in Sandys Kindheit und Jugend verleihen dem Buch eine große Tiefe. Ich kann dieses Buch auf jeden Fall nur weiterempfehlen!!
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I read all the other reviews before purchasing this book but didn't quite want to believe them - I'd enjoyed all those other Cecelia Ahern-books too much. But let me tell you, this book really is hugely disappointing.
Nobody quite knows where to place it or what it really wants to be - maybe that's why the publisher resorted to the slogan "Anything's possible with Cecelia Ahern." Quite so! It's a bit of a criminal story, but without much "who dunnit"; it's a bit of a romance, but without happy ending; and it's somewhat dark and depressing, but without offering any comfort or even philosophy in there. Maybe it's best described as a mystery, mainly in the sense that it's a mystery to me why any publisher would ever accepted such a work.
The book does have a plot, but it too makes very little sense: Things and people keep disappearing and (sometimes) reappearing, but without any underlying pattern to it. Even Cecelia's wit and humour has disappeared and, sadly, ...
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