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Waiting for Bojangles (2015)

de Olivier Bourdeaut

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An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)--shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes--a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone's mellifluous classic "Mister Bojangles." As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe--and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents--and from George's journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife--Waiting for Bojangles is a "lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale" (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.… (més)
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En pojke växer upp med en mamma som byter namn varje dag, en pappa som älskar att ljuga ihop historier och en trana som husdjur. Föräldrarna älskar att dansa och allra helst till Nina Simones ?Mister Bojangles?. De har vänt vuxenansvar och konventioner ryggen för att göra varje dag till ett äventyr. Men när skatteverket knackar på dörren och deras tillvaro riskerar gå om intet, glider mamman över
gränsen till galenskap och blir intagen. Pappan och sonen kokar då ihop en storartad plan för att frita henne och få sitt gamla liv tillbaka.
  CalleFriden | Feb 17, 2023 |
Une danse tendre et hallucinée qui m’a envolé dans un amour absolu

A réécouter toute la discographie de Nina Simone ( )
  noid.ch | Mar 15, 2022 |
Wenn es ginge, würde ich diesem Buch sechs Sterne geben, dabei ist es schwer, in Worte zu fassen, warum.

Es ist poetisch, eindringlich, lustig, traurig, verrückt, wundervoll -- mir fehlen die Adjektive.
Es ist ein Büchlein (aber schön ausgestattet, sogar mit Lesebändchen), und jede/r sollte die Zeit finden, es zu lesen. Am Besten igelt man sich für ein paar Stunden ein und taucht ab. Aber Achtung: man sollte sich nicht nur mit Getränken, sondern auch mit Taschentüchern ausrüsten. Man wird sie brauchen, und das nicht nur wegen des Verlaufes, den die Geschichte nimmt, sondern weil sie einfach zum heulen schön ist.
Ich werde gar nicht versuchen, den Inhalt zu beschreiben, denn man kann diese Achterbahn der Gefühle sowieso nicht in Worte fassen.
Es fängt recht lustig an, und irgendwie ist es auch verrückt, aber dann mehren sich die ernsten Momente, bis man zu dem Punkt kommt, wo man Böses ahnt, und die Luft anhält... Trotzdem war ich auf das Ende nicht vorbereitet. Vielleicht hätte ich es den Andeutungen entnehmen können, und unterbewusst habe ich es auch gemacht, aber ich wollte es nicht wissen.
Tja, und da saß ich dann mit verweinten Augen -- und ich bin nicht der sentimentale Typ.
Es ist aber alles so realistisch beschrieben, auch wenn es so grotesk wirkt. Ich habe ähnliche Situationen in meinem Leben erlebt, vielleicht ging es mir deswegen so unter die Haut.
Egal, welche Genres man gerne liest, dies ist ein Buch das sicher jeden ansprechen wird.


Ich habe die Ausgabe im festen Einband gelesen, für das Rezensionsexemplar danke ich dem Piper Verlag. ( )
  Belana | Dec 15, 2021 |
Un garçon raconte sa mère, son père, le couple qu'ils forment, la vie ébouriffante, hors normes, irréelle, magique qu'ils vivent et qu'ils donnent à leur garçon. Le père écrit, raconte également cette vie. Et l'on découvre une histoire tragique, remplie d'amour, de rire, d'absurde, de loufoquerie.
""Lorsque j'avais rencontré sa mère, j'avais tenté un pari, j'avais lu toutes les règles, j'avais signé le contrat, accepté les conditions générales et pris connaissance des contreparties. Je ne regrettais rien, je ne pouvais pas regretter cette douce marginalité, ces pieds de nez perpétuels à la réalité, ces bras d'honneur aux conventions, aux horloges, aux saisons, ces langues tirées aux qu'en-dira-t-on."
Court roman agréable, plein d'humour qui malgré la tragédie qui pointe, nous fait sourire tout au long du texte et j'ai rit avec les personnages lors de l'enterrement de la mère, lorsque le père imagine que l'unique mèche de cheveux sur le crâne du prêtre qui officie et qui s'affole dans le vent serait l'antenne lui permettant d'^êre en contact avec Dieu... ( )
  folivier | Feb 28, 2021 |
This is a first novel by french writer Olivier Bourdeaut, which won a 'Prix du Roman Des Étudiants and so could be considered a novel for young adults. It also won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire (2016) which is an award for a French language novel chosen by a jury of readers and so it has wide appeal. It is the story of a family of three: the two parents and their young son, who act out a fairly bizarre life style. It is told from the POV of the son, but also from notes for an unpublished novel written by his father.

It starts with the son describing a typical day in the life of the family. His father has retired early from a position in the French Government and his wife and he seem to be acting out a sort of fantasy life. Every day his father invents a new name for his wife to whom he is devoted. She loves the attention and plays along, she is addicted to the dance and to a lesser extent to alcohol. Every day the couple dance to the NIna Simone recording of Mr Bojangles which is a focal point of their day. The father is spending his free time writing a novel and their son fits himself into their life which is also shared with a large African bird of the parrot family. They have a chateau across the border in Spain where they spend some holiday time and a senator from the fathers old working life attaches himself to the crazy family life style. The son of course is doing badly in school, but the parents are so wrapped up in themselves they hardly notice. They seem oblivious to the world outside and although they have a circle of oddball friends we realise that things are not quite right: they hardly ever open any post and leave their mail in a heap in their hall, their alcohol consumption is on the increase and they are starting to alienate some of their friends with their behaviour. The tax man arrives with an enormous bill that they cannot pay.........,

The bizarre behaviour points to some sort of mental illness and it is no surprise when this becomes an issue. However it is a romance first and foremost: a mad love affair that takes two people and their son (and a parrot) down a road that is never going to end well. There is nothing new here in the story telling, the novel starts off as a comedy and then becomes more of a bizarre fantasy acted out by a family seemingly bent on destruction. The tone of the novel is melancholic rather than tragic and a suspension of belief is required from the reader. By having the son tell the majority of the story enhances the mystery through his naive approach to his family. The notes of his father's unpublished writing are cleverly interwoven to provide some background. The comedy, the romance all tinged with a certain melancholy as the novel progresses, supplies the charm and probably the popularity of this first novel. 3 stars. ( )
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An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)--shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes--a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone's mellifluous classic "Mister Bojangles." As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe--and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents--and from George's journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife--Waiting for Bojangles is a "lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale" (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

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