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S'està carregant… The House of Broken Angels (2018)de Luis Alberto Urrea
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Great rolicking likeable tale of a family, a dying patriarch and his siblings, his children, his wife which I enjoyed even more after hearing the author talk about writing it. ( ) Reading for my book club but I gave up at page 50. Too much rambling irrelevancy and impossible to figure out all the relationships or even who was talking when the nicknames keep changing. Read enough other reviews to confirm the remaining chapters would not improve my view. Life is too short to continue reading a book from which I get no pleasure. Checked in with my book club later. Everyone of them hated it, too. I picked this up because it is this year's selection for my local public library's "one city one book" event. It is in my wheelhouse so I figured, Why not? even though I tend to resist any efforts to structure my reading (never been good with the book club concept). This is the tale of Angel de a Cruz as he approaches his final days on earth, and his complicated, boisterous family. His mother's funeral immediately precedes his own planned 70th birthday party, which he is certain will be his last -- indeed, he is confident he will barely live out the day (this is not a spoiler by the way, it's all there in the flap copy). This is, in fact, such a complex clan of people that I spent most of the book wondering Who is that now? There is a plethora of siblings, stepchildren, cousins, and aunties to keep straight, but I sort of let it go near the end because really, in this family, it doesn't really matter how you are related, only that you are, and you will be fiercely loyal, though not afraid to call out your relations for their various failings and misdeeds. This is how families should be -- and indeed, how many of our families are. Over the course of a funeral and a birthday party, we get glimpses and long looks into many of these folks, and they live the remarkable and ordinary lives we all do. I love these family stories, and this one brought me to tears, in the end. “We don’t talk about Braulio.” I liked this book right from the beginning! Big Angel, and his family, are getting ready for his mother’s funeral. And his big birthday party is the following day. As the preparations of each person are described, we get to meet an interesting cast of characters. And as the weekend goes along, we learn all about everyone - their lives, secrets, strengths, loves, weaknesses - everything! Mostly, we learn about family. And death. I grew attached to this family and was sad when the book ended. And, I wish that I had known about "Little Angel's Custom Family Tree!" at the end (on page 322). It definitely would have helped when I got confused about who-was-who, especially at the birthday party! “How could you end a whole era and bury a century of life and be home before suppertime?” Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." ?? New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." ?? San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." ?? Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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