Man Booker Prize 2013 + Man Booker International Prize

    Shortlist für den "Man Booker prize 2013"


    A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)


    The Harvest - Jim Crace (Picador)


    The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury)


    The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (Granta)


    The Testament of Mary - Colm Tóibín (Penguin)


    We Need New Names - Noviolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus)



    Sind ja trotz des Titels mal wieder ne Menge Frauen dabei. :grin

    "Wie kann es sein, dass ausgerechnet diejenigen, die alles vernichten wollten, was gut ist an unserem Land, am eifrigsten die Nationalflagge schwenken?"
    (Winter der Welt, S. 239 - Ken Follett)

    Zitat

    Original von LeSeebär


    A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)


    Dieses liegt schon bereit zum Hören, bin schon gespannt. :-)


    "Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you."


    Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyber-bullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary she hopes will find a reader and friend who finally understands her.


    Weaving across continents and decades, and exploring the relationship between reader and writer, fact and fiction, A Tale for the Time Being is an extraordinary novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.

    "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore
    ("Vielmehr als unsere Fähigkeiten sind es unsere Entscheidungen, die zeigen, wer wir wirklich sind.")


    "An allem Unfug, der passiert, sind nicht etwa nur die Schuld, die ihn tun, sondern auch die, die ihn nicht verhindern."

    Erich Kästner.

    Und auf dieses war ich sowieso schon neugierig, durch Meryl Streep als Vorleserin noch reizvoller... also schon gekauft. :-)


    Allerdings auch recht kurz, 112 Seiten bzw. 3:06 Stunden.



    In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples.


    Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died--she fled, to save herself), and her judgement of others is equally harsh. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra of Medea or Antigone.

    "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore
    ("Vielmehr als unsere Fähigkeiten sind es unsere Entscheidungen, die zeigen, wer wir wirklich sind.")


    "An allem Unfug, der passiert, sind nicht etwa nur die Schuld, die ihn tun, sondern auch die, die ihn nicht verhindern."

    Erich Kästner.