Kip Stutzman itibaren Dos Cabas, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

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12/26/2024

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2018-08-06 17:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pena Yayınları

A fascinating look at how London has dealt with its dead through the ages, taking us from the Pagans and Romans, through the Middle Ages and the Victorians, up until modern times, and taking in numerous plagues and epidemics, a few fires and two World Wars, the death of Lady Di and the London bombings, while moving from outside the city, into its heart and then back out again. Informative, astonishing, gruesome and revealing, this book nearly managed to outdo my record of how many times I could turn to Nik with a "Listen to this!" - I think he was being bothered at least once a page (although he'd probably say it felt like more. He was trying to watch football, after all). Whether it be the charnel houses with their decorative skeletal chandeliers, the boisterous medieval graveyards and their town centre on a Saturday night atmosphere (complete with heavy drinking, fighting and regular deaths), the putrescent Victorian burial yards that actually killed the living, the drunken gravediggers, the exploding coffins and the showers of remains, the embalmed wives on display in living rooms, or the brides making 'grave clothes' for their potential future children, each page was bursting with jaw-dropping and frequently stomach-turning facts. Gladstone is quoted within: "Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathematical exactness, the tender mercies of its people, their loyalty to high ideals, and their regard for the laws of the land." In that case, Arnold shows us here that we don't have an awful lot to be proud of. **Also posted at Randomly Reading and Ranting**

2018-08-06 20:41

Son Arzu – Evlere Şenlik – Kaynanam Nasıl Kudurdu? TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları

While exploring a tumultuous time in Argentinean history through the eyes of comic characters, Nathan Englander’s new novel The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf, 2007) muses on the lengths to which loving parents will go when their child is in danger, and the lengths to which a repressive government will go to quell dissention. The novel takes place in Buenos Aires in 1976, when the troubled government of Isabel Peron was overthrown by a military junta. It was a time of extreme violence and social unrest; an estimated 20,000-30,000 leftists, students, union members and others who may or may not have been insurrectionists “disappeared” at the hands of the military dictatorship. Against the background of the government’s so-called “Dirty War” against its citizens, Englander portrays the lives of a middle class, Jewish family. Reminiscent of Nadine Gordimer’s novels, in which the political history of South Africa is seen through the lens of a single family, Englander’s novel juxtaposes the power struggles within the family – between father and son, between husband and wife, between mother and son – against the characters’ battles with political, social, and religious forces. Although tragic elements propel the plot, the novel contains comical moments as well. Kaddish faces one of the most devastating situations a parent could imagine but his story is, in many ways, a comedy of errors. Notwithstanding his good intentions, his plans always go awry, such as when a nose job he arranges for Lillian is mangled and when he bungles an attempt to blackmail a powerful woman for money to pay ransom for his son. Although Englander’s writing often depicts Jewish characters and themes, it also resonates with readers from diverse spiritual and cultural traditions, and has been compared to that of Issac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, and Franz Kafka, among others. Discussing the novel in an on-line interview, Englander commented that the “greatest tragedy is also funny.” Concurrently a compelling exploration of a father’s complex relationship with his teenaged son and a critical commentary on totalitarian governments, The Ministry of Special Cases depicts the comedy and tragedy of private individuals caught in a complex political situation.

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