The Great Believers: A Novel

The Great Believers: A Novel

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Beschreibung

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER
THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER

Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler

“A page turner . . . An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis.” —The New York Times Book Review

A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister.

Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, The Seattle Times, Bustle, Newsday, AM New York, BookPage, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lit Hub, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library
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3
Alle
4.5

<Spoiler> Oh how much I cried while reading this book and how much I loved these characters. Especially Yale, and how incredibly sad it was, that in the end he died alone cause all of his friends were gone. And how much respect but also just sadness I fell when I read about the AIDS crisis. 

3

Corona related brain fog is real, and it is keeping a tight grip on me. Nonetheless I FINALLY finished the audiobook of Rebecca Makkai's "The Great Believers" (a miracle, really) and I have to say: I wanted to love this book more than I did in the end. And I am sure if my stupid brain was functioning properly I could conjure up some sort of comprehensible explanation for why that ended up being the case, but given the circumstances all I can say is the following: What a wonderful set of (more or less) lovable characters. What a special friend group, what a good, good book about love and longing and friendship. What a great way to read about the AIDS epidemic and people's irgnorance, what a treat, what a treat. I wish I could have cared a little more. I wish this novel would have felt less lengthy. The storyline would have allowed for so much more pace than we as readers ended up getting - there is a reason for why it took me a MONTH to finish. And maybe that was the problem. Maybe, if I would have just hunkered down and READ that damn thing within a couple of days, I could have liked it a bit better. But as it stands this is a three star book - a three star book I still think everyone should read.

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