The Crane Wife
by:
Patrick Ness (author)
One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next...
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One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world opens up for George, and one night she starts to tell him the most extraordinary story. Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a hymn to the creative imagination and a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780857868732 (085786873X)
Publish date: April 4th 2013
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
„The Crane Wife“ von Patrick Ness basiert auf einem japanischen Volksmärchen. Im Nachwort schreibt Ness, dass er die Erzählung bereits seit dem Kindergarten kennt. Ich hingegen musste sie nachschlagen. Die Geschichte existiert in verschiedenen, alternativen Versionen, die grundlegenden Elemente glei...
I can quite honestly say that this was one of the worst books I've ever read. Maybe I just didn't get it. Maybe there was some deep, profound, metaphorical meaning that just flew right over my head but from what I gathered it was literally about a bird who fell in love with, and married, a volcano. ...
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #30: A Fairy Tale From a Culture Other Than Your Own3.5 starsI had high expectations for this book, as I've really loved Ness's Chaos Walking series and trust him as a writer to convey the authentic human experience. The fact that this is a modern retelling of ...
There have been moments in George’s life that seem hyperreal but also very strange. They are described like waking dreams: everything is weird but he accepts what comes without question. The Crane Wife, by Patrick Ness, begins with one of these moments. George hears a keening cry from outside and di...
The first fifty or so pages I was thinking "It's beautifully written. I usually hate that." And I thought about putting it down. I think it was the description of the art which really convinced me to keep going. After a while I began to appreciate the purely mundane bumping up against the magical In...
8 years ago
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