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Laddar... The House of Stormsav Ian R. MacLeod
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2011/12/review-of-he-house-of-storms-by-ian-r.h... ( ) Une uchronie de qualité. Située dans une Angleterre très Dickensienne cette histoire met en scène les destins de 2 personnes incarnant 2 styles de vie, 2 attitudes et 2 sociétés qui finalement entreront en conflit dans une effroyable guerre civile. Comme dans "L'Âge des Lumières" l'économie de ce monde repose sur l'Ether, état de la matière susceptible d'animer la matière inerte et vivante par un procédé proche de la magie. Mais c'est bien une Angleterre industrielle qui est représentée avec ses inégalités sociales, son architecture post-classique et son machinisme envahissant. Ce roman est peut-être moins prenant que "L'Âge des Lumières" à moins que ce ne soit l'effet de surprise moins fort que lors de ma lecture de cet autre livre. C'est cependant un excellent roman qui mériterait d'êre traduit en français. Bien écrit avec une extraordinaire richesse de vocabulaire. La construction, plutôt classique, est peut-êre le seul point un peu faible de ce livre. Chaudement recommandé: At the core of this novel is a bizarre love triangle between Alice Maynell, the mother who ruthlessly climbed her way to the top of the social ladder, Ralph, her son who is thrust into a position of power, and Marion Price, a fisherman's daughter who steals Ralph's heart. As events progress, Ralph and Marion go their separate ways and find themselves on either side of a class war brought about in part through Alice's political maneuvering. The book is split into two parts, dealing with Ralph's youth and relationship with Marion, and years later the final stages of the war enveloping the East and West of Ian MacLeod's fictional Britain. I felt that the first half of the story was the stronger of the two as there was more development of the characters and better dialogue. The second half was more disjointed and lacked some of the charm of the first half. The overarching message was that despite changes the status quo stays the same. This is an enjoyable if slightly overlong read. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aether's extraordinary influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Age of Industry, that lay at England's troubled heart. When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease. In desperation she travels to Einfell, to seek favour from one who once trusted her. And Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London, he is drawn away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fisherman's daughter Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it sees itself. But Alice will not let love stand in the way of her in her insatiable lust for power - nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war. An astonishing work of imagination, Ian R. Macleod has created a truly original world, one that is strangely recognizable and yet utterly new, an England made of magic, but set amongst familiar hills and cities. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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