Happiness: A Novel
de Aminatta Forna
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- VG
- ISBN 10
- 0802129188
- ISBN 13
- 9780802129185
- Librería
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4.5★s
"When he was in London, going to see plays and eating in fine restaurants, the city itself began to feel like a stage set, whose denizens enacted their lives against its magnificent backdrop. A theatre of delights, where nothing surely could go wrong, and if it did, all would be put right by the end of the third act."
Happiness is the fourth novel by British author, Aminatta Forna. American urban wildlife biologist Jean Turane has been living in London for eighteen months (studying the city's fox population) when she runs into Dr Attila Asane: literally, the first time, on Waterloo Bridge; metaphorically, thereafter. Within days they have shared drinks and meals and are pooling their resources to search for a runaway ten-year-old boy.
Attila is a psychiatrist, well respected in the field of PTSD, and is in London to give his oft-used keynote speech at a conference. However, he soon finds his free time taken up with the search for Tano, and problems with Rosie Lennox, a former colleague who is now a care facility resident, and with Jean. By the time he makes his speech, the events of the preceding week see him altering it beyond all recognition.
As the events of the week unfold, the thoughts of main characters are drawn back to past incidents so that the reader gradually learns the path that has brought them to London in 2014. Vignettes of the support cast reveal chance connections. As well, they all spend time discussing topics pertinent to their current lives, so the story touches on PTSD, coffees, special diets, the medicalisation of normal emotions, foxes, coyotes, wolves and parakeets.
The City of London itself is a major character in this book: residents and readers familiar with the city will find this an especially enjoyable novel. Forna tells a tale of fortuitous meetings and degrees of separation and good people who go out of their way to help. The gathering of doormen, traffic wardens, street actors, security guards and street sweepers in the search for the boy is especially heart-warming, and Attila's speech on trauma is enlightening. This is a marvellous read.
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- Librería
- Magus Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1288101
- Título
- Happiness: A Novel
- Autor
- Aminatta Forna
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0802129188
- ISBN 13
- 9780802129185
- Editorial
- Grove Press
- Fecha de publicación
- January 2019
- Páginas
- 320
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