Anne Landsman
Autor(a) de The Devil's Chimney
About the Author
Obras de Anne Landsman
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1959-04-14
South-Africa - Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- South Africa
- Local de nascimento
- Worcester, South Africa
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- University of Cape Town
Columbia University
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Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 80
- Popularidade
- #224,854
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 14
- Idiomas
- 2
One cannot help the feeling that these are actual memories from a real life. The first part for me was fascinating as it traced some of South Africa's history during the great wars. It also drew random pictures of the life of a Jewish family in George. The writer did not shy away from describing the father as he truly was, a lover of nature, a helpful physician but also a stubborn brute with evil temper and embarrassing outbursts. The father as the central character played out his role as son, orphan, jealous brother, adolescent at the cusp of his first sexual experience, student away from and home, suitor, doctor, husband, father, father-in-law and patient. All of his roles were refreshingly real and flawed, his frail humanity showing at every stage.
The book reminded me a collage, a collection of memories with Harold Klein at their center, it was all too obvious that the book will inevitably end with his death, but I was hoping for a more fitting farewell something more substantial. His death when it came was like an exhalation of a final breath, quick, silent and anti-climatic.
This a thought-provoking literary book for someone who wants something a little challenging.… (mais)