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S'està carregant… Blijf bij me (Dutch Edition) (2017 original; edició 2018)de Ayobami Adebayo (Autor)
Informació de l'obraStay with Me de Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (2017)
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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. Nigèria. Els problemes d'una dona que no es pot quedar embarassada i les estratagemes del marit. L'home ho pot fer tot, ella no. ( ) Yejide i Akin són un jove matrimoni a la Nigèria dels anys vuitanta. En una societat poligàmica, ells, sabent-se enamorats, decideixen ser una parella monògama. Però els problemes comencen quan no arriben els fills, fet que socialment i familiarment es considera una catàstrofe. Akin accedirà a casar-se gairebé d’amagat amb una segona esposa. Indignada i gelosa, Yejide sap que l’única manera de salvar el seu matrimoni serà aconseguir quedar-se embarassada. En la tradició de Chinua Achebe i Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, la primera novel·la d’Ayòbámi Adébáyò tracta temes universals —amor, família, traïció, culpa— en una història apassionant sobre les relacions humanes, les expectatives vitals que ens fem a la joventut i sobre el desig, de vegades incontrolable, de tenir fills. Rebuda com un autèntic fenomen literari, Queda’t amb mi és la història de dos personatges que s’enfronten desesperadament a les frustracions i les pèrdues que la vida els imposa.
Ayobami Adebayo’s sensitive, exposing first novel is about the lies and false hopes we tell ourselves to stay sane, and the cataclysmic impact the decisions we make can have on the people we love...The scope of Stay With Me is huge, and yet, the writing of it is painfully intimate, the problems and wounds so personal and tightly wrought that, at times, you want to put the book down and step away, as if, with every new revelation, you are further intruding, unforgivably, into this couple’s life. Fortunately, the brilliance of Adebayo’s storytelling stops you. In Nigerian society a childless woman is a tragedy, and considered to have probably brought it on herself. And it is not just her apparent inability to conceive that Yejide is up against. Her husband, Akin, has been coerced by his mother, Moomi, to take a second wife, in the hopes that he will get her pregnant instead. “You have had my son between your legs for two more months and still your stomach is flat,” Moomi tells Yejide when the new wife is also not yet pregnant. “Close your thighs to him, I beg you … If you don’t he will die childless. I beg you, don’t spoil my life. He is my first son, Yejide.” Such animated dialogue is a delight throughout the novel, and Moomi’s voice is the loudest among the vivid, persuasive characters who bring this Yoruba community to life... though there is still room for growth, she has a thoroughly contemporary style that is all her own. Her clever and funny take on domestic life and Nigerian society is a welcome addition to her country’s burgeoning literary scene. Despite the intense sadness of her subject matter, she has produced a bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit, as well as the damage done by the boundlessness of male pride. PremisDistincionsLlistes notables
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" -- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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