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A carregar... Bestiary (edição 2021)por K-Ming Chang (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I never thought I’d complain about a novel having too many metaphors but K-Ming Chang takes it an annoying level. When you combine that with descriptions like, “I thought of tonguing out all her teeth” or “We crabbed-walked to her bunk bed.” The reader becomes exhausted. ( ) This was on my 22 for 22 list, I was so exited to read it. The synopsis does not match the book though and I’m actually a bit resentful that what I was promised was so far from what was delivered. There is a brilliant story and an inventive writer here, but it’s buried by relentless - and I mean relentless - obsession with the body. Is that strong enough? No. This book is gross. I got the sense that Chang delighted in disgusting readers as much as possible. “My tongue slipped into her nostril and a pebble of dried mucus dissolved on my tongue. I knew everything she smelled that day” I read that K-Ming Chang was a sophomore in college home for summer break when she wrote this, and honestly, I think that immaturity was evident. Maybe she’s avant garde. Either way I learned that scatological books are not for me. *scatology - interest in or treatment of obscene matters especially in literature I did not know this term existed until Bestiary. I hope not to read anything labeled as this again. P.S. I can’t fault anyone who rated highly. Kudos for finding the story through the viscera! A fever dream of poetry, magical realism, mythology, and generational trauma in the Asian immigrant community. There were so many creative twists and turns but the more experimental aspects of the prose led to a lack of cohesion. The book flowed oddly and didn't give a satisfying sense of completion at the end. The fixation on bodily fluids felt quite gratuitous in many parts. A narrative that is uniquely poetic, this is a book with sentences that convey multiple meanings - at once nuanced and murky. The style manages to make us see the mundane as myth and from multiple perspectives. However, at times it also obscures more than it reveals - I suppose it's a matter of whom the reader is and what kind of background they possess. My four-star rating is based on the groundbreaking way that Chang tackles the multi-generational responses to being an expat/immigrant in a strange and profoundly different country. Perhaps the strangeness of the narrative helps us navigate through the different facets of East meeting West. At times, she waxes with laughter too with sentences like, "I thought bowels were a breed of bird, and bowel movements were how they migrated." A rather difficult read at times, it nevertheless breathes with an astonishing power to enchant. Overall memorable and totally unpredictable. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one familys queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Epic and intimate at once, Bestiary brings myth to visceral life. K-Ming Chang's talent exposes what is hidden inside us. She makes magic on the page.Julia Philips, author of Disappearing Earth One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a womans body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterward, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmothers letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a mythand that she will have to bring her familys secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one familys history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood. Praise for Bestiary [A] vivid, fabulist debut . . . the prose is full of imagery. Changs wild story of a familys tenuous grasp on belonging in the U.S. stands out with a deep commitment to exploring discomfort with the body and its transformations.Publishers Weekly. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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