The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)

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The Gathering (Man Booker Prize),

von: Anne Enright

The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)
Bindung: Taschenbuch
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 823.914
EAN: 9780802170392
ISBN: 0802170390
Label: Black Cat Publishing
Hersteller: Black Cat Publishing
Anzahl Seiten: 272
Erscheinungsdatum: September 30, 2007
Herausgeber: Black Cat Publishing
Studio: Black Cat Publishing

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Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Pretty early on in The Gathering you realize that in her lingering portrait of the Hegarty clan (and this isn't hyperbole--they are a family of 12), Irish novelist Anne Enright will wrestle with all the giant literary tropes that have come before her. Family, of course, is the big one, but with equal intensity she explores death and dying, the sea and its siren song, sex, shame, secrecy, unreliable memories, madness, "the drink," and--always in the shadows--England. That said, it's not like any other novel about the Irish that I've read. The story of the Hegartys is indeed bleak, and hard, but it surges with tenderness and eloquent thought which, in the end, are the very things that help this family (or at least her narrator Veronica) survive. Through her eyes, and in Enright's skillful imagination, those small turning-point moments of life that we all know in some form or another--a petty fight, a careless word, an event witnessed--come together in an unshakeable vision of how you become the person you are. --Anne Bartholomew






Bewertung: - An Engaging Narrator Takes You to Liam's Wake While Shrouding the Past in Mystery
When a book has won a prestigious prize like the Man Booker, readers feel a double challenge: Appreciate the book for what it is and try to figure out what attracted the award panel's approval. I think the former was easier to do than the latter in this case.

Ultimately, The Gathering's subject is the difficulty with trying to pin down the truth of anything, especially things that happened long ago for which there is little or no contemporary evidence. If you've never thought much about that issue, you'll enjoy the subtle philosophical bent of the novel.

That subject is explored in the context of a sister contemplating her brother's death. Veronica Hegerty is a very vivid and appealing character: Much of the book's charm comes from seeing her family through her eyes and memories. In the process, she reveals the kind of "within the family" opinions that all family members express in whispers with one another. Beneath her grief, Veronica also feels a need to share ... weiter

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Bewertung: - einfach langweilig
Es mag sein, dass man das Buch mehrfach lesen muss, um es schätzen zu lernen. Ich habe es einmal gelesen und das hat mich schon viel Mühe gekostet! Ich fand es einfach langweilig und unstrukturiert. Ich lese seit Jahren die Gewinnerbücher des Booker Prize und dieses war meiner Meinung nach mit Abstand das schlechteste Buch.

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Bewertung: - deservedly received the Man Booker Prize 2007
breaking w/ conventions; exposing plenty of family secrets & taboos; writing irreverently; full of suspense; this page turner book guarantees entertainment until the end.

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Bewertung: - This is a complicated book
one that requires more than one reading with which to fully come to grips. There's a lot going on here, about family, about the ties that bind, about the fact we can never escape the past. Everyone will not like this book, it's too grim and rambling and unfocussed for that, but I did. The story, which is set in Dublin, revolves around Veronica Hegarty, a 30-something wife and mother, who has escaped the clutches of her huge Irish Catholic family She has eight siblings and suffers hardships when her brother, Liam, kills himself. Closest to him in age, Veronica is the one who must pick up the pieces and bring back his body from England, where he drowned himself off Brighton Beach.

The first-person narrative is told in a stream-of-consciousness manner from Veronica's perspective. She flits backwards and forwards in time, exploring her family's dark history. She goes as far back as her grandparent's generation as she tries to unravel the story. During the course of the book, which ... weiter

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Bewertung: - Schlecht
Obwohl mich die Handlung und die Kritiken sehr neugierig gemacht haben, haben sich meine Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Im Gegenteil, ich musste mich zwingen es zu Ende zu lesen. Enright hat mich einfach nicht in ihre Geschichte ziehen können, ich fühlte mich von keiner der Personen, am wenigsten der Erzählerin selbst, persönlich angesprochen oder habe gar mit ihnen gefühlt. Dabei geht es doch um die Aufarbeitung des Tods des Bruders, der ganzen Familienverhältnisse sowie der beobachteten Misshandlung. Aber der harsche und direkte Stil sowie die ständigen Zeitwechsel liessen mich keine Verbindung zu den beteiligten Charakteren aufbauen, so dass ich auch eigentlich kein Interesse daran hatte zu sehen, inwieweit die Hauptfigur ihre Trauer verarbeiten kann. Kurz, ich fand den Roman ganz im Gegensatz zu anderen Rezensenten und Kritikern nicht packend sondern langweilig und stumpf.

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