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Laddar... In the Company of Angels: A Novel (2001)av N. M. Kelby
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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. "In the Company of Angels" is set in a small town in France during WWII. The highly religious town is destroyed through bombings and occupancy by the Germans. The history of seeing divinity and/or religious visions were regular occurrences, but it did not save this town or it's people. The central characters of Anne, whose mother was thought insane by her insistence that her daughter was to be taken by angels, the Mother superior and a young Jewish child, Marie Claire, rescued from the rubble. What becomes of them is meant to be soul stirring... My problem was the potential "twist" at the end of the very small book - it expected a "leap of faith" from the reader, I am good with that, but I felt that the book changed directions too abruptly, no flow, no real background... I have read books like this before, where at the end I am in awe and the implications and ramifications of the earlier chapters takes on completely different meanings... this book just left me confused for a while and then disappointed overall feeling that I had been cheated by a glossed over end... the last 1/4 of the book could and should have been written better. A rarity in my book reading habits - I will not keep this one in my collection. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative tale. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, where she is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead-everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of the house and waits. Eventually she is rescued by two nuns working for the Resistance, who take her to their convent near a town where small miracles and strange visions are simply a part of life. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This haunting debut novel is full of magical realism and religious mysticism. Told in a series of vignettes with limited connective narrative, the reader feels as if s/he is watching the story unfold as if refracted through a series of prisms. Images are so close and vivid, and yet fuzzy and out of reach, lending to the mystical atmosphere. Excepting the innocent 7-year-old Marie Claire, all the characters are full of regrets and struggling to balance devotion with obligation, love with war, and faith with loss of hope.
I enjoyed this short (164 pg) novel, and I am a fan of magical realism, but I'm left feeling a little dissatisfied. I think Kelby might have expanded some of the scenes and worked harder to provide some connective narrative to support the story arc. I liked it, but I’m struggling with whether to recommend it, or to whom. Readers with a high tolerance for ambiguity might enjoy it.
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