A valsa esquecida
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788579621628
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Alfaguara Brasil
Pages no: 232
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Relationships
Picked this up after it won the Carnegie prize. Not my usual scene, but I loved the prose and the complicated main character.
This Orange prize nominee is a bit disappointing if I'm honest. The human emotion is real and honest. What happens in the book can happen to anyone - and that made me profoundly sad. But... Maybe I'm still to young or optimistic for this and would love it in a few years. Who knows?
Hmm. Nee, da hatte ich mehr erwartet.
blurb - In a snow blanketed Dublin, Gina reflects on the last decade, from the moment she first caught a glimpse of Sean Vallely, through a haze of cigarette smoke, through the happenstance and lust, the hotel rooms and the secrets, that have brought down two marriages, three mortgages and left her ...
I liked this a lot more than most of the other reviewers - The dispassionate writing, the minute observations of each flinch and gesture in a marriage, the sudden passions of an unexpected affair and the observations of brittle middle age. I aso really liked the flawed heroine.
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