We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - A Novel, Nominiert: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2014, Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2014
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| Verlag | Penguin US |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 336 |
| Format | 9,4 x 25,6 x 4,7 cm |
| Gewicht | 241 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0142180823 |
| EAN | 9780142180822 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14218082EA |
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
Klappentext:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. I was raised with a chimpanzee, she explains. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern s expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister. As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to date a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
A gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being. Khaled Hosseini
