Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Autor(a) de Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel
About the Author
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Obras por Yelena Akhtiorskaya
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1985
- Sexo
- female
- Local de nascimento
- Odessa, Ukraine
- Locais de residência
- Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University (MFA)
Hunter College (BA) - Ocupações
- Lecturer in Creative Writing, Princeton University
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2014)
Membros
Críticas
Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel por Yelena Akhtiorskaya
I won this book from Goodreads, and I was very much looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately I just could not get into it. I found both the writing style - lack of punctuation, unfinished thoughts, confusing phrasing, and the unlikeable characters so off-putting that I could not, and quite frankly would not allow myself to spend anymore time on this novel. I made it almost halfway through, but it was just annoying.
I am not a big poetry fan, and some of Akhtiorskaya's prose gets a bit too poetry-like for my taste, but then again one of her main characters in this novel is Pasha, a poet whose poetry may well have the same vague heaviness and semi-logical feel that the poetry-like bits of this novel exhibit. This novel is very 'Russian', reminding me very much of my college Russian language instructors, and the parts set in the US give an interesting perspective on a subculture of the US that I otherwise am not really familiar with. I enjoyed this book a lot.… (mais)
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.i kept wondering if this book was translated from another language, since it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Not a lot happened, other than descriptions of members of a family both in Brooklyn and their native Ukraine. I didn't care about the characters, and everyone seemed a little sad. There are positive reviews (including the New York Times), so maybe I'm missing something.
I wanted to love this book -- the exquisite writing, the Russian diaspora setting. But the threads don't connect and too few characters are developed. I hope her second novel has more depth and polish.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 212
- Popularidade
- #104,834
- Avaliação
- 3.0
- Críticas
- 18
- ISBN
- 11
- Línguas
- 2
