Margui B từ Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines

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05/07/2024

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2019-08-07 15:30

Những Người Bạn Cố Đô Huế (Trọn Bộ 3 Tập: 1932 - 1933 - 1934) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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S bought me this on the strength of Amazon telling him that people who bought Alice Munro books also liked Margaret Atwood. I'm not sure what the similarity could be, apart from the fact that they are both Canadian. If Alice Munro stories are as intricate and delicate as an intaglio brooch, on the evidence of The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood's novels are like unwieldy cabin trunks bulging with old clothes, scraps of paper, newsclippings, and tattered notebooks. This is a long book and it took me a while to get into it -- for the first 100 pages I really wasn't sure whether I would finish it. It starts out with an elderly woman, Iris Chase, looking back at her childhood with her younger sister Laura in a country mansion near Toronto during the 1920s and 30s. Their father owns a local button factory, brought to the brink of ruin by the Depression. At the age of 17, Iris marries (or is married off to) one of his competitors in the belief that her father's business will be saved as a result, but things don't turn out quite the way she thought they would. This story is interspersed with extracts from newspapers spanning 60 years, hinting at the family's trials and tribulations, and instalments of Laura's posthumously published novel, in which a story of doomed lovers mingles with thirties pulp science fiction featuring spaceships, scaly aliens, sacrificed princesses, and "undead" green women with purple hair and pointy breasts. Confused? You will be ... but gradually I was drawn into the story, and the apparently conflicting parts of it started to slot together, the disordered cabin trunk turning into a Rubik's cube. You start to wonder how the repressed, exploited and apparently passive young Iris turns into the acerbic, often witty old lady who is telling the tale. Strange parallels appear between science fiction and real life. At the same time, Atwood drops subtle hints that this pattern is not telling quite the whole story -- there is still something hidden. I started to suspect at least part of the dénouement about 300 pages in, but I was still so riveted by the last 100 pages that I stayed up late to finish them, rather than put the book down. It's not just a gripping story/stories, or a feminist/political tract though -- it's about all sorts of other things as well, including why and how writers turn life into fiction. Marvellous -- I'm really glad I read it.

Người đọc Margui B từ Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.