The Vanishing Half: Sunday Times Bestseller: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

The Vanishing Half: Sunday Times Bestseller: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

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Beschreibung

The Vignes Twin Sisters Will Always Be Identical. But After Growing Up Together In A Small, Southern Black Community And Running Away At Age Sixteen, It's Not Just The Shape Of Their Daily Lives That Is Different As Adults, It's Everything: Their Families, Their Communities, Their Racial Identities. Ten Years Later, One Sister Lives With Her Black Daughter In The Same Southern Town She Once Tried To Escape. The Other Secretly Passes For White, And Her White Husband Knows Nothing Of Her Past. Still, Even Separated By So Many Miles And Just As Many Lies, The Fates Of The Twins Remain Intertwined. What Will Happen To The Next Generation, When Their Own Daughters' Story Lines Intersect?weaving Together Multiple Strands And Generations Of This Family, From The Deep South To California, From The 1950s To The 1990s, Brit Bennett Produces A Story That Is At Once A Riveting, Emotional Family Story And A Brilliant Exploration Of The American History Of Passing. Looking Well Beyond Issues Of Race, The Vanishing Half Considers The Lasting Influence Of The Past As It Shapes A Person's Decisions, Desires, And Expectations, And Explores Some Of The Multiple Reasons And Realms In Which People Sometimes Feel Pulled To Live As Something Other Than Their Origins.praise For Brit Bennett:'a Writer To Watch' Washington Post 'bennett Allows Her Characters To Follow Their Worst Impulses, And She Handles Provocative Issues With Intelligence, Empathy And Dark Humour' New York Times 'a Beautifully Written, Sad And Lingering Book' Guardian On The Mothers
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Seitenzahl
352
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18.02 €

Beiträge

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4

The Vanishing Half von Brit Bennett handelt von den Zwillingen Desiree und Stella Vignes, deren Leben sich in sehr unterschiedliche Richtungen entwickeln. Ich fand super interessant und auch toll umgesetzt zu verfolgen wie unterschiedlich die Leben der Schwestern sich entwickeln und wie sie doch miteinander verbunden bleiben. Im Verlauf der Geschichte bekommt man auch die Sichtweisen der Töchter, die sich ebenfalls treffen ohne anfangs zu wissen, dass sie verwandt sind. Die Geschichte entwickelt sich eher langsam und lebt allgemein mehr von den Charakteren als der Handlung. Dennoch habe ich mich nie gelangweilt da die Autorin tolle Figuren deren Schicksal mich nicht losgelassen hat. Nur das Ende hat mich etwas enttäuscht, da ich mir dann irgendwie doch gewünscht hätte das mehr passiert.

5

FABULOUS! No wonder HBO intends to stream a mini-series based on this novel with its shrill and colorful characters touching delicate topics around race and identity!

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