Paradise City - Softcover

Day, Elizabeth

3,78

2.723 Bewertungen von Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140885502X ISBN 13: 9781408855027

Verlag: Bloomsbury, 2015

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Cr�ticas:

An acutely observed and insightful portrait of contemporary urban life. Audacious, funny and shrewdly telling - written with tremendous confidence and brio (William Boyd)

A wise, big-hearted novel. I was utterly caught up in Day's four interweaving lives (Esther Freud)

Combines great story-telling with finely detailed characterisation: a literary page-turner (David Baddiel)

A beautiful portrait not only of four lives but of a city - London springs vividly to life in this tender, absorbing novel. Elizabeth Day is a wonderful story-teller (Francesca Segal)

The four desperate Londoners forge life-changing connections in this ambitious novel. Day's protagonists are rounded and believable, and the big city - in all its maddening, bustling glory - is the unofficial fifth character (Glamour)

As a state-of-the-city novel, it's richer than John Lanchester's Capital and less pleased with itself than Ian McEwan's Saturday. (Evening Standard)

Elizabeth Day's third novel is her most accomplished yet . The most impressive and intriguing character by far, however, is Beatrice. Day's portrayal of her is complex and frequently surprising . Day has an admirable ability to explore uncomfortable issues (child abuse, grief and murder) without reaching for easy conclusions (Alex Peake-Tomkinson Guardian)

In a compelling and confident piece of storytelling, Elizabeth Day's third novel shows us four individuals adrift in the great crucible of London . Thoughtful, humane and wonderfully observed, this is a convincing portrait of life in our mighty metropolis (Simon Humphreys Mail on Sunday)

Day has demonstrable empathy for the outsider in all of us . She has a sharp, satirical eye and, as a journalist, she is particularly delicious on the grubbier workings of the newspaper industry (Claire Allfree Daily Mail)

The author's design aligns these disparate characters in a system of partial mirrorings. This is interesting and thought-provoking, undermining the reader's expectation of nemesis for the perpetrator . Paradise City is a moral fable, concerned with issues of guilt, contrition and atonement (Stevie Davies Independent)

Rese�a del editor:

Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits.

Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels and his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations.

Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat and The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed, she frets over her daughter's prospects and wonders if she'll ever be happy again.

Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop, even as she longs to find some greater meaning and leave her imprint on the world.

Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard's and Beatrice's worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.

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