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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Billed as 'an intense story of forbidden love' and a 'modern day Wuthering Heights', My Soul Twin didn't seem like my usual reading fare, but I liked Nino Haratischvili's bestseller The Eighth Life, for Brilka, (translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, see my review) so I set out to see how I got on with a somewhat hysterical female narrator. (Wuthering Heights is narrated by the somewhat bloodless Mr Lockwood.) We know some of what we're in for, from the prologue in Book One. Shaving off one's hair over some lost love seems a bit extreme to me. But this character's self-destructive behaviour goes beyond a few shorn locks. Stella is a married woman and she treats both her young child and her husband with #Understatement little concern for their wellbeing because the only thing that matters is her passion for her lover. She is cavalier at her workplace, risking the sack, even though she admits (at least to herself) that if she offloads her marriage, she's going to need that job to maintain the congenial lifestyle she's had with her husband. She treats the rest of her family with disdain if any of them try to remonstrate with her. She is especially scornful to her sister Leni, with her three 'alpha' sons. (She seems to despise Leni for being bourgeois, but she's bourgeois herself.) So, no, not a character who engages our sympathy. And that's whether or not the reader feels moral outrage because the cause of all this mayhem is that Stella is having an affair with her Heathcliff, Ivo, brought up in her family as a brother. This novel is about her feelings — her passion, and his — and the way these two oscillate around each other in an on-again, off-again relationship that everyone recognises is destructive. To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/11/05/my-soul-twin-by-nino-haratischvili-translate... From the very beginning, when I started reading this book, I was surprised that I liked it a lot. Actually, I do not like such stories so much, about women and men who are unfaithful, complicated families and family history. This book, which ends where it started, grabbed me and has not let go untill now (4 days later). What it was that I liked so much about this book, I really do not know. But I know one thing: I'm looking forward to the other book by this author who is still in my closet, The Eighth Life (for Brilka). sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he returns, the reunion of their unconventional family will change the course of her ordinary life. As children, Stella and Ivo grew close as their parents embarked on an affair that would shatter both families. Later, as teenagers, their own relationship would be the cause of further scandal. Now, as adults, they set out on an odyssey to uncover the truth about another family's past-and to understand their own. My Soul Twin is an intense love story about forbidden desire, the ties that bind us, and whether we can ever truly forget what we leave behind. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I saw in one of the blurbs that this book was described as a modern-day Wuthering Heights. While I guess I understand Brontë’s book being a classic, I didn’t like it much myself, and one reading of it was enough. So blurbs like that don’t make me want to read whatever is being hyped. But I like Nino Haratischwili, so read it I did. I didn’t see a modern-day Wuthering Heights. Misguided (maybe?) love in an incredibly dysfunctional family? Sure. And everyone in the book pays some kind of price for that dysfunction whether they were a prime mover in the dysfunction or not. Life is complicated and hard, and seems to be getting more so, not less. But as hard as it sometimes is for me, this passage really resonated with how I feel:
“I was confronted from time to time with scenes from a world that had been bombed to pieces. I would reassure myself, especially when feeling almost overwhelmed by the heat, that my world was a world full of uncertainty, but it was one without bombs.”
Yes, my life also is one so far without bombs, but again I resonated with the main character when she thinks, “What a fucking dictatorship of happiness life is...”
I highly recommend checking this book out. And The Eight Life.