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Carregando... Come On Up (edição: 2021)de Jordi Nopca (Autor), Mara Faye Lethem (Tradutor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. Jordi Nopca has written a collection of stories that will take you to the streets, homes, and workplaces of contemporary Barcelona, a city managing the economic problems and political strife of the last decade.Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. This is a collection of short stories and the first work of Spanish Catalan author Jordi Nopca to be translated into English. Each story is set in one of the neighborhoods in and around Barcelona. While most of the characters have college degrees, most of them are dealing with economic insecurity, whether they've managed to find work in a restaurant or as a journalist. Things are precarious, relationships falter under the weight of unemployment. But the stories aren't depressing, Nopca's characters are a resilient lot. And while, on the whole, the stories themselves were not extraordinary, the setting and the culture were and I really enjoyed getting a glimpse of how ordinary Barcelonians live. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. Described in the blurb as a 'group portrait of contemporary Barcelona, beaten by the economic crisis and divided by a secessionist movement', Come On Up is a collection of short stories that are, in every way, slice-of-life stories. Centered on believable characters with generally mundane lives and concerns, the book is weighted with a sort of apathetic trudging forward; the inertia of the stories is built from strong writing and realism, with only the sort of absurdity that feels true to life, but the stories blend together in a way that makes me think these might have been more successful separated out among journals vs all collected together in a single volume. Because, as it is, most of the stories held the same flavor and the same tone, with little to distinguish them beyond the particular lives at their center--the problem being that these lives/characters were, in many ways, themselves single-toned and interchangeable.I'd be curious what a novel from the author would look like, but in general, this collection suffers from what too many single-author short story collections suffer from--a sort of repetitiveness of mood and lack of progression. And when that is added to the fact that the stories themselves are somewhat downtrodden and casual in focus, this ends up being a hard collection to recommend. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. Book Review-Come On Up by Jordi NopcaBeing a fan of Spanish literature and the city of Barcelona I looked forward to this new book. A collection of short stories that documents the lives of a variety of working-class people living in Barcelona after the economic collapse of 2009. Hotel workers, waiters, small business people, immigrants, individuals and couples give rise to a variety of life situations. Nopca depicts the harsh economic realities. This is a book that provides a glimpse of Barcelona during those times. It is interesting but could not be called inspiring. The book received a blurb from the great Enrique Vila-Mata, a favorite of mine, which should provide encouragement and promise to this younger writer’s future work. Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing. With a few exceptions, I didn't find these stories very interesting. I also thought some of them read less like stories and more like excerpts of longer works (that I wouldn't want to read): their endings seemed random enough that they could've equally ended in another spot (preferably several pages earlier).sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"What happens when the hopes of a generation are dashed by austerity policies and underemployment? Come On Up is a group portrait of contemporary Barcelona, beaten by the economic crisis and divided by a secessionist movement. Always witty, often absurdist, these stories offer a mesmerizing glimpse into the daily lives of couples, families, and neighbors living the new normal of the 21 st century. A husband seeks revenge on his wife as they stalk author Peter Stamm; an out-of-work bartender fills his empty days by shoving bananas into the tailpipes of parked cars; a mysterious ritual, spied through a neighbor's window, arouses deadly spirits. Masterfully paced, the eleven mordant stories of Come On Up draw us into an embattled world whose past is unresolved and whose future is uncertain"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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