Jamie Ford - Love and Other Consolation Prizes

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    Sprecherin: Emily Woo Zeller

    11:29 Stunden

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    For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off—a healthy boy “to a good home.”

    The winning ticket belongs to the flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel, famous for educating her girls. There, Ernest becomes the new houseboy and befriends Maisie, the madam’s precocious daughter, and a bold scullery maid named Fahn. Their friendship and affection form the first real family Ernest has ever known—and against all odds, this new sporting life gives him the sense of home he’s always desired.

    Fifty years later, in the shadow of Seattle’s second World’s Fair, Ernest struggles to help his ailing wife reconcile who she once was with who she wanted to be, while trying to keep family secrets hidden from their grown-up daughters.

    Against a rich backdrop of post-Victorian vice, suffrage, and celebration, Love and Other Consolations is an enchanting tale about innocence and devotion—in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale.



    Habe rund ein Viertel durch und der Anfang kam mir vor wie eine düstere Mischung aus "Keiko" und "Wie ein einziger Tag" (von Nicholas Sparks). Inzwischen gefällt es mir deutlich besser, bin gespannt, wie es weitergeht.

    "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.