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| Apr 04, 2006 10:53 am |
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re: re: What R u reading ? what I would recommend... |
les ombres de bleu
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I would definitely recommend
'Boyhood' by Coetzee {Author is The Nobel Prize winner. He won the Booker twice, I guess}
this book is an adult's memoir of an unhappy childhood and a white South African's memoir of life under apartheid.
A crystal clear articulation from the child's mouth, his poignant observations on the life around him, and his ardent love layered with insecurity for his mother, the idea of perfection about his mom ...set against the unhappy period in Coetzee's childhood, when his family had moved from Cape Town to the decidedly more backward Worcester. ..
As children we tend to take sides,we tend to develop inclination towards specific countries (I used to tell my friends that am from Russia, when I was in the 4th class)
.....the boy's instinctive stance against certain cultures that has less to do with ethics than with that sense of style/the feel factor
Coetzee chooses the Russians "because he likes the letter r, particularly the capital R, the strongest of all the letters."
very truthful and poignant. read this book for its style (as it takes one back to the childhood...there's a phase in our childhood, we get conscious of our nakedness..Calvin screams at his mom when she steps into the bath...we would have done that! that awakening and the BIG BOY/BIG GIRL FLAVOUR}
I decided to gift this book to all my close friends...
I felt this book is a lot better than DISGRACE-the Nobel prize winner from this great author
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