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"Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance-- a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He can also hear the gentle voice of his father, William Arrow, shot dead before Bonaventure was born by a mysterious stranger known only as the Wanderer. Bonaventure's remarkable gift of listening promises salvation to the souls who love him: his beautiful young mother, Dancy, haunted by the death of her husband; his Grand-mère Letice, plagued by grief and a long-buried guilt she locks away in a chapel; and his father, William, whose roaming spirit must fix the wreckage of the past. With the help of Trinidad Prefontaine, a Creole housekeeper endowed with her own special gifts, Bonaventure will find the key to long-buried mysteries and soothe a chorus of family secrets clamoring to be healed" -- from HarperCollins web site.… (mais)
I enjoyed reading about Bonaventure and his extraordinary gift but the heavy moralizing in this really weighed things down. The magical realism I expected was more like the mysteries of the rosary and the portrayal of the evangelical grandmother was unnecessarily mean. Also, I found the timeline hard to follow. The allusions to characters and events that weren’t revealed until later in the story were confusing and they made me think I’d missed something earlier in the book. At the end the author explains how this grew from a short story she wrote in graduate school - it shows. This has barely a short story's worth of plot and way too much back-and-forth filler. ( )
Reading this book was like tasting an exotic food I've never had before. You have that split second where your taste buds are indecisive, where it could go either way. But this book was rich and delicious. Lush and lyrical. Sometimes the lyrical prose was a little overpowering, trying too hard, and over-the-top, yet other times I read and reread a line because it was so beautiful. I highly recommend this story. Characters are well thought out and well drawn. It's a different kind of story. Magical in a believable way. It beckons you to lay aside your cynicism and believe in good magic, pulls you in. Heartwarming and heartbreaking at times. Great read for summer on the porch with the cicadas buzzing. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. - William Shakespeare
Dedicatória
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Paul and for the Pelican
Primeiras palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead.
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Últimas palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
There were the tap water and scissor sounds of wished-for beauty; the gum ball rattle of giant kindness; the crinkly-page sounds meant for Creathie LaRue; the joyful, last-sip gurgle from Bixie's Luncheonette; the moist-earth sounds of healing; the echo of wind in the trees; the pinging of broken sunlight; and the courageous buzzing of a blue bottle fly all mixed together in a wonderful, powerful, magical gris-gris.
Autores Resenhistas (normalmente na contracapa do livro)
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CDD/MDS canônico
LCC Canônico
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"Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance-- a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He can also hear the gentle voice of his father, William Arrow, shot dead before Bonaventure was born by a mysterious stranger known only as the Wanderer. Bonaventure's remarkable gift of listening promises salvation to the souls who love him: his beautiful young mother, Dancy, haunted by the death of her husband; his Grand-mère Letice, plagued by grief and a long-buried guilt she locks away in a chapel; and his father, William, whose roaming spirit must fix the wreckage of the past. With the help of Trinidad Prefontaine, a Creole housekeeper endowed with her own special gifts, Bonaventure will find the key to long-buried mysteries and soothe a chorus of family secrets clamoring to be healed" -- from HarperCollins web site.
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Anna for August 2019
Very good discussion and lots of colorful characters, a good read (