The Memory of Love
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2013
نویسنده
Susan Lyonsناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781470337018
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Susan Lyons creates a believable accent for Marion Flint, a Swedish retired doctor who is living on an isolated beach in New Zealand. Linda Olsson's beautiful prose intertwines the story of Marion's past and an account of her unexpected maternal love for a mildly autistic boy named Ika, who is living with his abusive grandmother. Lyons adopts a fitting quality of reserve for Marion, who fears she could lose Ika so that his grandmother can keep her access to welfare. A subtle change of tone adds a dreamy note for the flashbacks to Marion's traumatic childhood and her doomed love affairs. The flattened vowels of the myriad New Zealand characters are adequate; it is Lyons's portrayal of a solitary woman finding unforeseen joy that is perfect. A.B. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
January 28, 2013
Alternating between events on an isolated beach in New Zealand and a traumatic childhood in Sweden, this sentimental ode to love lost and found from Olsson (Sonata for Miriam) is a touching, if far-fetched, tale. Marion, a newly retired family doctor, has shut herself out from the world in her coastal home, where her main pastime is gazing at the ocean. Marion finds new purpose, however, after Ika, an introverted young boy trapped in an abusive home, unexpectedly enters her life. The author’s prose is at times pinched and lapidary, while at others, effusive and overstated, and sometimes both: “The coffee is hot and strong, the scones fresh. It is a superb breakfast.” On the other hand, Olsson handles Marion and Ika’s story in a beautifully natural fashion, though the long arm of fate is extravagantly elongated in a tragic subplot, involving an ill-starred affair in Marion’s earlier life, that would put Thomas Hardy to shame. Agent: Stilton Literary Agency (Sweden).
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