Swimmers
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Utgitt:
2022
Forlag: Fig Tree
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN: 9780241543887
Format: 20 x 14 cm
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«Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read...Don't miss this beautifully written, heartfelt, wry and wistful exploration of loss.»
«With shrewd characterisation and original observations, Otsuka tells a tale of grief and memory that's quietly observed yet awash with dark humour and wit.»
«Amid an incantatory litany of totalising losses, there are snapshots of a unique life with all its complications. Superbly realised and incredibly moving»
«Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read»
«What makes a good life? What is a good death? The answers to these questions shimmer elusively just below the surface of The Swimmers»
«Otsuka's slender, stylistically ambitious third novel is a marvel, capturing the hypnotic rhythm of lane-swimming and the devastating decline of memory and connection as dementia takes hold...Heartbreakingly powerful»
«Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us»
«Here comes the new Julie Otsuka novel, so we can begin to live again»
«Heartbreaking and astoundingly good»
«I'm in awe of how this beautiful, graceful novel can hold so much grief and loss and love in its pages: a literary gem.»
«'If it wasn't tragedy it would be comedy, and it nimbly treads the very narrow line between'»
«'One of the marvels of The Swimmers is its unshowy portrayal of the immense drama inherent in losing the mind before the body has expired. But perhaps even more impressive is its respect for the general confusion of living'»
«Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving »
«Poignant and funny, I've never read such a brilliant account of this devastating illness, nor for that matter of the compulsive nature of swimming lengths in a pool.»
«"The Swimmers" is an exquisite companion. Though it doesn't answer the unanswerable, the novel's quiet insistence resonates: that it is our perfectly ordinary proclivities that make us who we are.»
«An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent »
«A goddamn heartbreaker»
«A story of memory loss and its fallout for family, and of the power of pool friendship. Glittering and tender.»
«As a regular and sedate swimmer, I loved this novel...A quiet and thoughtful story about the small, steady joys of life and how quickly and irrevocably they can become disrupted.»
«A story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, it will make you reconsider what's truly important in life»