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"Book clubs in search of the next Kite Runner need look no further than this astonishing, flawless novel... Cleave (Incendiary) effortlessly moves between alternating viewpoints with lucid, poignant prose and the occasional lighter note. A tension-filled dramatic ending and plenty of moral dilemmas add up to a satisfying, emotional read." -- Library Journal
"Little Bee will blow you away.... In restrained, diamond-hard prose, Cleave alternates between these two characters' points of view as he pulls the threads of their dark -- but often funny -- story tight. What unfolds between them... is both surprising and inevitable, thoroughly satisfying if also heart-rending." -- Washington Post
"Utterly enthralling page-turner... Novelist Cleave does a brilliant job of making both characters not only believable but memorable.... These compelling voices grip the reader's heart and do not let go even after the book's hyper-tense final page. Little Bee is a harrowing and heartening marvel of a novel." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Every now and then, you come across a character in a book whose personality is so salient and whose story carries such devastating emotional force it's as if she becomes a fixed part of your consciousness. So it is with the charmingly named title character in Chris Cleave's brilliant and unforgettable Little Bee..." -- The Oregonian
"London journalist Cleave's memories of a job feeding asylum-seekers in a U.K. detention center inform this stunning work.... With wry humor, Cleave unravels Bee's tangled history with Sarah, an Englishwoman with deep revelations of her own..." -- People (Four Stars and a People Pick)
"...a psychologically charged story of grief, globalization and an unlikely friendship...Cleave's narrative pulses with portentous, nearly spectral energy..." -- Kirkus
"The voice that speaks from the first page of Chris Cleave's Little Bee is one you might never have heard -- the voice of a smart, wary, heartsick immigrant scarred by the terrors of her past.... Read this urgent and wryly funny novel for its insights into simple humanity, the force that can disarm fear." -- O Magazine
"...Little Bee is a loud shout of talent." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Cleave is a nerves-of-steel storyteller of stealthy power, and this is a novel as resplendent and menacing as life itself." -- Booklist (starred review)
"The charge, then: buy this book. Resist opening it until you are ready to start reading, for once you begin you'll find yourself unable to stop. ... Prepare yourself for Cleave's poignancy, his control, and the pathos he so effortlessly evinces. Expect astonishment, for this is a work inspiring in depth and style; a work that alters perceptions." -- Bookslut
"Little Bee will blow you away.... In restrained, diamond-hard prose, Cleave alternates between these two characters' points of view as he pulls the threads of their dark -- but often funny -- story tight. What unfolds between them... is both surprising and inevitable, thoroughly satisfying if also heart-rending." -- Washington Post
"Utterly enthralling page-turner... Novelist Cleave does a brilliant job of making both characters not only believable but memorable.... These compelling voices grip the reader's heart and do not let go even after the book's hyper-tense final page. Little Bee is a harrowing and heartening marvel of a novel." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Every now and then, you come across a character in a book whose personality is so salient and whose story carries such devastating emotional force it's as if she becomes a fixed part of your consciousness. So it is with the charmingly named title character in Chris Cleave's brilliant and unforgettable Little Bee..." -- The Oregonian
"London journalist Cleave's memories of a job feeding asylum-seekers in a U.K. detention center inform this stunning work.... With wry humor, Cleave unravels Bee's tangled history with Sarah, an Englishwoman with deep revelations of her own..." -- People (Four Stars and a People Pick)
"...a psychologically charged story of grief, globalization and an unlikely friendship...Cleave's narrative pulses with portentous, nearly spectral energy..." -- Kirkus
"The voice that speaks from the first page of Chris Cleave's Little Bee is one you might never have heard -- the voice of a smart, wary, heartsick immigrant scarred by the terrors of her past.... Read this urgent and wryly funny novel for its insights into simple humanity, the force that can disarm fear." -- O Magazine
"...Little Bee is a loud shout of talent." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"Cleave is a nerves-of-steel storyteller of stealthy power, and this is a novel as resplendent and menacing as life itself." -- Booklist (starred review)
"The charge, then: buy this book. Resist opening it until you are ready to start reading, for once you begin you'll find yourself unable to stop. ... Prepare yourself for Cleave's poignancy, his control, and the pathos he so effortlessly evinces. Expect astonishment, for this is a work inspiring in depth and style; a work that alters perceptions." -- Bookslut
Kurzbeschreibung
WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK.
It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.
Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:
It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.
The story starts there, but the book doesn't.
And it's what happens afterward that is most important.
Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
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45 von 48 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich:
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A story that needs to be told,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Little Bee: A Novel (Taschenbuch)
First of all: This whole thing about "not telling" is just a marketing gag for me and completely unnecessary. So I will write this review with references to the plot but obviously trying not to spoil it, as I would with any review about any novel. The novel is excellent, and having a basic idea about it does not take away from the quality of story, language, and narrative.Now: The story is told from two perspectives: that of Little Bee, a girl from Nigeria who as the novel sets in is about to leave a British Immigration detention center, and a successful middle class white English woman. The lives of these two women were joined in a most horrid incident two years earlier. This incident is finally related towards the middle of the novel. The English woman is forced to deal with its consequences on her husband and her marriage. For the African girl it means she has to be on the run, both in Nigeria, and in the UK to where she fled but where she has not been granted asylum. The life of refugees and their reasons for fleeing form one part of the book. The other (closely related) aspect it artfully illustrates are the human cost of the clash between the third and first worlders. The main characters are presented skilfully. Their inner conflict is plausible and touching. The character of Charlie a.k.a. Batman, the English woman's 4-year-old, is endearing and truly works as the "emotional center" the author wanted to create (interview with Cleave). My only criticism would be with some of the dialogues, which sometimes seem to stretch beyond the necessary. Of all the good things I can say about this book (Narrative, voice, language, characters), what I find most important is that it tells a story that needs to be told. In times when Europe braces itself against immigrants and is getting ever more unwilling to grant asylum, when our oil companies continue to exploit Nigerian oil at any human cost, we need stories like this to make us grasp emotionally what we read about in the papers as we eat our breakfast cereal. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
29 von 31 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich:
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Ein tolles Buch, aber Vorsicht - viele Bilder daraus wird man nicht mehr los,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Little Bee: A Novel (Taschenbuch)
Ich habe dieses Buch schon vor längerer Zeit auf Englisch gelesen und kann nur bestätigen, was meine VorgängerInnen geschrieben haben: Es ist ein außergewöhnliches, tolles Buch, vor allem die Sprache ist einfach wunderschön. ABER: Das Buch beschreibt viele sehr, sehr grausame Szenen und die bleiben einem erhalten - zumindest bei mir war es so. Ich habe beim Lesen des Buches ständig geheult :()
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66 von 72 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich:
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"We don't want to tell you what happens in this book",
Von Muschelkalk (Hamburg) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Little Bee: A Novel (Taschenbuch)
Na super: Der Verlag verschweigt auf Wunsch des Autors den Inhalt eines Buches, denn "The magic is in how it unfolds". Ist das ein schlauer Marketing-Gag für ein mittelmäßiges Werk? Oder doch ein nachvollziehbarer Gedanke für ein ganz und gar außergewöhnliches Buch? Und wie kann man eine Bewertung über einen Roman schreiben, über dessen Handlung man nichts verraten soll?Soviel gibt der Buchrücken dann doch her: "Little Bee" (in der britischen Ausgabe "The Other Hand") erzählt von zwei Frauen, die so unterschiedlich wie nur irgend möglich und dennoch durch eine ganz besondere Geschichte miteinander verbunden sind. Diese Geschichte ist bis zum Schluß nie ganz das, was sie scheint und stellt die beiden Protagonistinnen - und damit auch den Leser - immer wieder vor Entscheidungen, die niemand freiwillig treffen möchte. Daß dabei der moralische Zeigefinger nicht allgegenwärtig ist, liegt an den beiden Erzählstimmen. Die eine ist nicht immer sympathisch, mit ihren Fehlern aber sehr menschlich, die andere ist schlicht und einfach absolut liebenswert und sorgt mehr als einmal für einen unerwarteten Blick auf die Welt, in der wir leben. Fazit: Kein Marketing-Gag, sondern wirklich ein ganz und gar außergewöhnliches Buch. Der Bitte des Autors um Verschwiegenheit ist unbedingt Folge zu leisten. "Little Bee" ist traurig, witzig, aufwühlend und zu Herzen gehend - leicht zu lesen, aber nicht leicht zu vergessen. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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