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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316166685, Mass Market Paperback)When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. As months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage being contorted by loss, her sister hardening herself in an effort to stay strong, and her little brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone. And she explores the place called heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counselors to help newcomers adjust and friends to room with. Everything she ever wanted appears as soon as she thinks of it-except the thing she most wants: to be back with the people she loved on Earth. With compassion, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie sees her loved ones pass through grief and begin to mend. Her father embarks on a risky quest to ensnare her killer. Her sister undertakes a feat of remarkable daring. And the boy Susie cared for moves on, only to find himself at the center of a miraculous event. The Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) A primeira ronda de testes foi já encerrada. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais informação. |
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Este livro é um daqueles que nos fazer doer o corpo e a alma - e os ossos. De nos fazer desesperar por sermos os únicos que sabemos o que está a acontecer e mesmo assim não podermos saltar para o centro da acção e intervir. Um daqueles livros que nos alteram a visão do mundo, das nossas crenças, daquilo que nos espera para além do além. Um livro que aconselho vivamente.
A história é-nos então contada por Susie, uma rapariga que quando mais se fica a conhecer, mais nos vai parecer tão familiar, tão real, podendo levar o leitor a lembrar-se de uma irmã, de uma prima, de uma amiga, de uma vizinha, daquela pessoa cuja foto está afixada nas ruas sob o título de "Desaparecida", ou de nós próprios. Mas Susie foi brutalmente assassinada. A vida abandonou o seu corpo mas a sua alma não consegue fazer o mesmo com as pessoas e os lugares que lhe são mais queridos. Ela vai observar, e relatar eventos passados e presentes da sua família, amigos, conhecidos, e até do seu assassino. E se já é suficientemente penoso sermos testemunhas de um crime para lá de hediondo, que nos é contado pela vítima, ser-nos contado como este acontecimento macabro despedaçou uma família tão parecida com a nossa, é de cortar o coração. Mãe, pai, irmã, irmão, avó, namorado, amigos, professores, vizinhos. Somos constantemente confrontados com a maneira como todos eles arranjaram para lidar com esta perda, e porque é uma realidade à qual ninguém está a salvo, faz-nos pensar, "e se me acontecesse a mim?"
Devo dizer, que para além de chocante e arrepiante, e todos as outras coisas que chamei no início, esta é também uma leitura terna e poderosa, repleta de relatos sinceros sobre os laços familiares que nos unem, das amizades que sobrevivem a qualquer coisa, daquilo que se ganha com a perda, daquilo em que não podemos pensar mas que nunca se esquece, daquilo que nos vai doer e alegrar para sempre. 5 estrelas.
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The Lovely Bones, probably the most shocking, chilling, depressing, and brilliant book - not fantasy, not classic - I have ever read. I can’t remember the last time I cried this much while reading. Cried until my face hurt, my poor eyes swell, and could barely recognize myself in the mirror.
This is one of those books that makes your body and soul - and bones - hurt. That make us despair because we are the only ones who know what’s happening and yet we can’t jump to the center of the action and intervene. One of those books that can change the way you look at the world, that can give a shake to your beliefs, that can make us wonder what awaits beyond the beyond. A book I highly recommend.
This story is told by Susie, a girl that, the more we get to know, the more she will seem familiar, real, and may lead the reader to remember a sister, a cousin, a friend, a neighbor, that person whose picture is posted on the streets under the title “Missing”, or ourselves. But Susie was brutally murdered. The life left her body but her soul can not do the same with the people and the places that are most dear to her. She is going to observe and report events past and present of her family, friends, acquaintances, and even her killer’s. And if it is already too painful to witness a crime beyond hideous - told by the victim - being also told how this macabre event shattered a family so like ours, is heartbreaking. Mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, boyfriend, friends, teachers, neighbors. We are constantly confronted with how they all managed to cope with their loss, and because it is a reality to which nobody is safe, makes us think, “and if it happen to me?”
I must say that in addition to shocking and chilling, and all the other things called at the beginning, this is also a tender and powerful reading, filled with heartfelt stories about the family ties that bind us, about friendships that can survive anything, about what is gained by the loss, about what we can not think because it hurts so much, yet hurts also if we don’t, about what is going to wound us, and rejoice us, forever. 5 stars. (