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A God in Ruins: A Novel (Todd Family) (original 2015; edição 2015)

por Kate Atkinson (Autor)

Séries: Todd Family (2)

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Historical Fiction. HTML:This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.


"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy ?? would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather ?? as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world.
After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age
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Título:A God in Ruins: A Novel (Todd Family)
Autores:Kate Atkinson (Autor)
Informação:Little, Brown and Company (2015), 480 pages
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Like its predecessor or companion volume Life After Life, this is mostly about the Second World War and its impact on society and people’s lives. This volume concentrates on the experiences of the protagonist Edward (Teddy) Todd as a pilot in Bomber Command. But we are also introduced to the lives and points of view of a number of people who are related to him: his parents, his sister Ursula (the protagonist of Life After Life), his wife Nancy, his daughter Viola and his grandchildren. The book ranges backward and forward in time, and plays with the idea of alternate histories, though nowhere near the extent with which Life After Life does.

Engaging and deeply moving, a meditation on the art of fiction. Beautifully written, like all of Atkinson’s work.

The fact that Atkinson is English and almost exactly my own age means that there are many experiences and references in the book which resonate deeply with me; perhaps less so for other readers. ( )
  davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |
Quit reading, did not really speak to me, like other books by Atkinson (or I was not listening). ( )
  flydodofly | Jan 20, 2024 |
I liked Life After Life a lot so was eager to read this companion novel featuring Ursula's brother Teddy. As I read the story, I was often a little bored and it was only "knowing" the characters from the previous book that kept me reading. And I hated the ending! It was confusing. There's a line about the story existing only in Teddy's imagination. What? Even worse, the book goes on to conclude with an excerpt from one of the Augustus stories. Who cares about Augustus? Not me.

As always with Kate Atkinson, the writing is beautiful. There were several times the events in the book really touched me. Most reviewers loved the book. It just didn't work for me. ( )
  LynnB | Nov 18, 2023 |
As I neared the end of this book I felt only sadness, because it was going to end as every book and every life ends. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised when it didn't... But I'm not going to spoil anything. This is a terrific follow-up to Life After Life, a sequel in the style of Robertson Davies, expanding and examining the life of a secondary character. Except that Teddy is really quite a central character in Life After Life, having a great influence on the "main" characters of that novel (who become secondary here but are fondly familiar) and the narrative action. There are so many things I could say about this excellent book, but the most striking thing is the characters. They are vivid and fully fleshed, unique, individual and real as I haven't read in a good long while. The characters are so distinct and the story so exceptional (though simply -- beautifully -- about people being people) that the non-linear narrative, a device that so often fails, seems perfectly suited. I want to run out and read more Kate Atkinson now, but it will have to wait until the next pile from the library is plowed through. In the meantime I will savour this one and look forward to sharing it. ( )
  karenchase | Jun 14, 2023 |
Not as good as Life After Life, but very much worth reading. The two books are very different, perhaps that's why they make such a perfect pair. Unlikeable characters are likeable and vice versa. ( )
  Iira | Jan 16, 2023 |
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Kate Atkinson writes a brilliant follow-up to her brilliant novel, focusing on Teddy, the RAF pilot and brother of the previous book’s heroine....But if A God in Ruins suffers from a touch too much tidiness, if it overcalculates the glories of a sensitive “artistic soul,” those flaws pale next to Atkinson’s wit, humanity, and wisdom. In her afterword, she alludes to the “great conceit hidden at the heart of the book to do with fiction and the imagination, which is revealed only at the end.” It is a great conceit. But it’s also a testament to the novel’s craft and power that the conceit isn’t what you’ll remember when it’s over.
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A God in Ruins doesn’t have a plot so much as a question, namely: How does such a lovely, perfect guy produce such a horrible, ungrateful daughter? Atkinson’s characteristic intelligence and wit are often on prominent display in the novel, yet it isn’t quite idiosyncratic enough to avoid the pitfalls of plotlessness. The chapters describing Teddy’s wartime exploits, in particular, feel over-long and over-detailed. One gets the sense that Atkinson has done a lot of painstaking research and doesn’t want to waste the fruits of her labour. ...Unlike Life After Life, which began flamboyantly and had a large cast of nuanced characters, this novel’s rewards come late in its pages. Until they do, we’re left in the company of two people who are ultimately rather dull: one because he’s “deplorably honest,” the other because she’s exasperatingly self-serving. Narrative psychology tells us there’s bound to be an explanation for this, and there is; the question is whether readers will have the patience to stick around and find out what it is.
 
But then you read a novel like Kate Atkinson’s “A God in Ruins,” a sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family, and you remember what a big, old-school novel can do. Atkinson’s book covers almost a century, tracks four generations, and is almost inexhaustibly rich in scenes and characters and incidents. It deploys the whole realist bag of tricks, and none of it feels fake or embarrassing. In fact, it’s a masterly and frequently exhilarating performance by a novelist who seems utterly undaunted by the imposing challenges she’s set for herself....Taken together, “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins” present the starkest possible contrast. In the first book, there’s youth and a multitude of possible futures. In the second, there’s only age and decay, and a single immutable past. This applies not only to the characters, but to England itself, which is portrayed over and over as a drab and diminished place. The culprit is obvious — it’s the war itself, “the great fall from grace.”
 
A God in Ruins is the story of Teddy’s war and its legacy, “a ‘companion’ piece rather than a sequel”, according to the author. At first glance it appears to be a more straightforward novel than Life After Life, though it shares the same composition, flitting back and forth in time so that a chapter from Teddy’s childhood in 1925 sits alongside a fragment of his grandchildren’s childhood in the 1980s, before jumping back to 1947, when Teddy and his wife Nancy, newly married, are trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the devastation: ...A God in Ruins, together with its predecessor, is Atkinson’s finest work, and confirmation that her genre-defying writing continues to surprise and dazzle.
 

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Historical Fiction. HTML:This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.


"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy ?? would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather ?? as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world.
After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age

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