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When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.
La desaparació del pare de la família fa retrobar els tres germans i reunir-se amb la mare per decidir què cal fer. I ens permet conèixer quatre personalitats ben diferents, el seu passat, el seu present, el temor del seu futur... Si bé la història està bé, el que realment he trobat més genial és com l'autora relata la quotidianitat de les reaccions, els gestos, les actituds; fa unes descripcions magistrals! ( )
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
For S and I and J
and B, of course
Primeres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
The heat, the heat.
Citacions
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Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everythg she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved. (p. 6)
Conversations with his mother can be confusing meanders through a forest of meaning in which nobody has a name and characters drop in and out without warning. (p. 38)
She had that washed, tremulous feeling you get after a bout of crying. Like a London street after the cleaners had been down it; dark, wetted, cleansed. (p. 70)
Strange weather brings out strange behaviour. As a Bunsen burner applied to a crucible will bring about an exchange of electrons, the division of some compounds and the unification of others, so a heatwave will act upon people. It lays them bare, it wears down their guard. They start behaving not unusually but unguardedly. They act not so much out of character but deep within it. (p. 119-120)
Silence, thick as fog, rolls in from the landing. Gretta feels that she could put out her hand and touch its cold form. (p. 201)
Darreres paraules
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès.Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.