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Kim Echlin

Autor(a) de The Disappeared

9 Works 770 Membros 40 Reviews 3 Favorited

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: KIM ECHLIN, Kim A. Echlin

Obras de Kim Echlin

The Disappeared (2009) 399 cópias
Elephant Winter (1997) 133 cópias
Dagmar's Daughter (2001) 84 cópias
Under the Visible Life (2015) 50 cópias
Speak, Silence (2021) 25 cópias
Tell Others (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
La huella de tu ausencia (2011) 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1955
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Canada
Ocupação
translator
editor
teacher

Membros

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Under The Visible Life is a moving story by Kim Echlin that will knock your socks off!

To be blunt and up-front, this book was not the book for me. That being said, it was a truly mesmerizing story! It was very hard for me to get into this book but it was still beautiful nonetheless. I want to say that upfront since my rating is based off my opinion of the book (and I wasn't pulled into the book) but the story is still a worthwhile read! I am sure many other readers will be able to connect with this story and fall in love with it in ways that I couldn't. Kim Echlin is amazingly talented and I highly suggest this novel.

I did love that this story revolved around women and their realistic lives. The book didn't feel over the top. It felt honest and real in ways that other books haven't lately. I think this is how the book will sit well with people. Somehow, this story felt like I could have been hearing or reading a non-fiction novel. The struggles felt real and the characters felt like I could have walked by them on the street. Kim Echlin deserves a lot of recognition for just being able to do that in one book. It's mind-blowing!

So, why was this book not for me? I found it really hard to sink into. I had to force myself to read each chapter and it felt way too slow. I like a fast paced book that gets me hooked, and this book is not that. It's raw, real and slower paced. The book isn't boring by any means, it just wasn't made for me (which is a good thing!). As a reader, sometimes you have to admit that you won't love ALL books. But that's art! I can still appreciate how absolutely stunning this book was. And I will highly recommend it every single day because this book is definitely made for other readers!

I will say my favourite part about this book: it has a lot of culture. It will open you up to worlds you may not have known about before (Afghan culture, for example). Books that include other cultures (in a respectful manner, on top of just including them) are books that need to be read! So, I will shout from the hill tops that this book needs to be read! I liked reading about a culture that is not my own.

Three out of five stars.

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.
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Briars_Reviews | outras 6 resenhas | Aug 4, 2023 |
Amore a prima lettura. Due storie di donne che si incrociano in una grande amicizia sotto l'egida della musica jazz e dell'amore per il pianoforte. Due storie uniche, con tante difficoltà, sacrifici, scontri fra culture diverse sullo sfondo di grandi rivoluzioni culturali e non. Questa storia si avvinghia al cuore e in certi momenti ti toglie persino il fiato. una bellissima lettura.
 
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Mav_Danto | outras 6 resenhas | Jul 28, 2023 |
Gota, working as a journalist, leaves Toronto for a film festival in Sarajevo where she hopes to reconnect with the love of her life (and father of her child), Kosmos whom she hasn't seen for 11 years. She meets on only Kosmos, but the woman he loves, Edina, who is a lawyer working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on a case involving the mass rape of women and girls during the Bosnian war. Gota and Edina form a strong bond and Gota finds herself immersed in the community of survivors and the fallout of war.

The book is well written with a sparse yet stark style that brings the horrors of what happened to so many women forward in a way that shows not only the horror of what some many women went through but also their strength and resilience. Maybe a bit melodramatic when dealing with the Gota/Kosmos and Edina/Ivo love stories but an extremely powerful read nonetheless.
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LynnB | Nov 6, 2022 |
Following the lives from two women, Katherine in Hamilton in Canada, growing up without knowing her Chinese father, and Mahsa in Karachi where she lives with her aunt and uncle after the murder of her Afghan mother and American father. Music becomes a key to freedom and to being themselves for both of them, and after living parallel lives in the book they eventually become friends on Mahsa's visit from Montreal to New York City, where Katherine took herself and her three young children to seek out opportunities in music. I really enjoyed this book, the friendship between the two protagonists and the thirst to be free and your authentic self that both protagonists find in music.… (mais)
 
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mari_reads | outras 6 resenhas | Oct 3, 2022 |

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Obras
9
Membros
770
Popularidade
#33,051
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
40
ISBNs
60
Idiomas
9
Favorito
3

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