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Home Reading Service

- A Novel
Af: Curtis Bauer, Fabio Morabito Engelsk Paperback

Home Reading Service

- A Novel
Af: Curtis Bauer, Fabio Morabito Engelsk Paperback
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After an accident - or ''the misfortune,'' as his cancer-ridden father''s caretaker, Celeste, calls it - Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver''s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the ''City of Eternal Spring'' is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesn''t truly understand them. His eccentric listeners - including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don''t know are hearing; and a beautiful, wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano - sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quick-witted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morabito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.
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After an accident - or ''the misfortune,'' as his cancer-ridden father''s caretaker, Celeste, calls it - Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver''s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the ''City of Eternal Spring'' is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first, Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, and more, but doesn''t truly understand them. His eccentric listeners - including two brothers, one mute, who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don''t know are hearing; and a beautiful, wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano - sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire, and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters, like the practical, quick-witted Celeste, who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read, Fabio Morabito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt, unequal society.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781635420722
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1635420725
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 16 nov 2021
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 202mm
Højde: 134mm
Forlag: Other Press LLC
Oplagsdato: 16 nov 2021
Forfatter(e): Curtis Bauer, Fabio Morabito
Forfatter(e) Curtis Bauer, Fabio Morabito

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9781635420722

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 202mm

Højde 134mm

Udg. Dato 16 nov 2021

Oplagsdato 16 nov 2021

Forlag Other Press LLC

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