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Happiness: A Novel
de Forna, Aminatta
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802129188
- ISBN 13
- 9780802129185
- Librería
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Tokyo, Japan
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US: Grove Press, 2019. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation o n grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forn a folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation with a sublimely deli cate touch."â??Washington Post London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collideâ??Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote spee ch. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observa tion show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of f riends, his "niece" who hasn't called home in a while. Ama has been swept u p in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing. When, by chance, Attila runs into Jean again, she mobilizes the network of rubbish men she uses as volunteer fox spotters. Security guards, hotel door men, traffic wardensâ??mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad s treets of Londonâ??come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds. Meanwhile a consulting case causes Attila to question the impact of his own ideas on trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Forna asks us to consider the interconn.
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El Jul 16 2018, un lector dijo:
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
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- RWARE0000047412
- Título
- Happiness: A Novel
- Autor
- Forna, Aminatta
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine/Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0802129188
- ISBN 13
- 9780802129185
- Editorial
- Grove Press
- Lugar de publicación
- US
- Fecha de publicación
- 2019
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