- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Anchor; Auflage: Anchor Books. (5. Februar 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0385721072
- ISBN-13: 978-0385721073
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 1,7 x 20,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 451.879 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Striding purposefully out into vintage Graham Greene and John le Carré territory, British novelist Nicholas Shakespeare tells a haunting, violent story about a military policeman from a country very much like Peru and his lifelong mission to track down an infamous rebel leader very much like the head of the Shining Path terrorist group. The tension builds slowly but beautifully, as a journalist in search of a story becomes instead an important player in the history of an embattled country.
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Shakespeare, author of The Vision of Elena Silves (1990), enters the heart of darkness in a work based on his reporting of the capture of Abimael Guzman, the elusive leader of Peru's Shining Path terrorist group. Dyer, a British reporter assigned to Latin America, is in a cool panic about an order from his editor to close the South American bureau and leave the country. He can have Moscow or the Middle East. Dyer doesn't want to leave; he schemes. While dining at a restaurant, he meets a man reading the same book as he is, Rebellion in the Backlands. The man is Agustin Rejas, the police detective who captured the rebel leader, Ezequiel, responsible for "30,000 deaths and countless tortures and mutilations." It is incredible luck. Rejas, who has refused all interviews connected with the capture of Ezequiel, decides to tell all to Dyer. Brilliant talk, at times infused by as much darkness as the city in the blackouts that paralyze the populace. Nothing less than disturbing. Where's justice? Where's the light? John Malkovich has bought the film rights to this troubling work, and should plans go forward, it will be his directing debut. According to Variety, Malkovich may play the role of the mist-cloaked Ezequiel. Have them read the book. A singular experience. Bonnie Smothers
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Nicholas Shakespeare has an amazing style so as to tell stories, he's a storyteller by the means of the vocabulary he uses.
Augustín Rejas, a simple policeman and his team are supposed to capture the Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel. Rejas is leading a usual family life when he falls in love with his daughter's dance teacher - until he begins to recognize the connection between her and Ezequiel.
With the person of Ezequiel Shakespeare created a character that more or less clearly refers to the leader of "The Shining Path" Abimael Guzman.
With this novel Shakespeare gives us a really deep insight in the complicated Peruvian poltical system and cultural situation. He mangages to create a unforgettable impression of Peru in the minds of his readers.
To cricize I only found the time dependent course he uses - he starts with the begining and the ending and then tries to build up the part between them which makes reading sometimes a bit boring - and the small-sized world his story takes place in - you always read of houses, streets, buildings etc. You know with whom you are but you don't know where.
If you are interested in Peru, its politics and its society then you shouldn't omit this book. When you are looking for a ingenious, thrilling and exciting story you should try your luck at someting else.
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Intense Thriller about Peru
9. Februar 2003
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Shakespeare has turned out a tense and frightening tale. "The Dancer Upstairs" is about the violent and ultra-radical Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) insurgency in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s. The protagonist is Agustine Rejas, a policeman, who hunts down the guerilla leader, Ezequiel. Rejas reminded me of Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's Russian policeman in "Gorky Park" and other novels. He is an honest, decent, incorruptible man, whose virtues are little valued by the society of which he is a part.
Shakespeare tells a compelling story with literary flair and Reyes and the supporting cast, especially the guerilla Ezequiel, are strong, interesting characters. That is fortunate because the story is seriously marred. The author, for no good reason, relies heavily on several incredible coincidences to advance his story. Any hack detective story writer could have come up with a more inventive and believable way to tell his story than Shakespeare does. That being said, "The Dancer Upstairs" is still a cut above than the average political thriller. If you like Graham Greene or John Le Carre, you will probably like "The Dancer Upstairs."
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1. April 2010
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This gripping story, a fictionalized account of a real wave of terrorism, is more than just a thriller. Author Shakespeare deftly weaves in an intense love story, a political thriller and a treatise on the Indian culture of the Andes. Shakespeare writes with passion, yet passion disciplined by a formidable control of the English language. This is a beautiful book, if that word can be used in a novel that centers around carnage. And, oh yes, if you are a fan of the dance, this book will be right up your alley. I found it a very enjoyable, compelling book.
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Beautiful and Compelling
29. Dezember 2005
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Typically I have little patience for white men's stories about indigenous cultures, or political commentaries disguised as dramatic fiction. Superficially, The Dancer Upstairs is both of the above -- a mixed-race man in a mixed-race society, continually confused and yearning for what he knows not, and others like him, none realizing that it is all the same, that no one has the answers, not even el presidente Ezequiel. And yet the book is neither of these two things, for it is, at its heart, a love story. The unknowability of the human heart. The inevitability of fate. Suffering. The liquid richness of time -- how certain moments contract into nothingness and yet others expand in our memories, on and on, until we are nothing but those memories, nothing but a physical relic of those vapors of time.
The book is beautiful -- the entirety of it thoughtful and graceful like a dance. South America's vibrance is channeled through each page, and particularly via the large brown eyes of Yolanda. In Rejas, the main narrator, we find compassion, sensitivity, and an overwhelming humanity. He lives as if on the fringes of his own life, continually making space for the desires of others -- his wife Sylvina who yearns for Miami, his daughter Laura who lives to dance -- until he meets Yolanda, Laura's dance teacher, who brings out within him desires that can never be put to rest again. The story ends in what I can only call a collision -- but a collision that the reader has foreseen, and anticipates, perhaps as absolution. And even after the story has long ended, I find myself wanting to retread the steps up to the narrow balcony of the Catina de Lua, and imagine that Rejas and Dyer are due to reappear at any minute, and that Rejas will begin anew, to murmur of his past, and that I will listen humbly, as we all do, when faced with a tale of great sacrifice.
The book is beautiful -- the entirety of it thoughtful and graceful like a dance. South America's vibrance is channeled through each page, and particularly via the large brown eyes of Yolanda. In Rejas, the main narrator, we find compassion, sensitivity, and an overwhelming humanity. He lives as if on the fringes of his own life, continually making space for the desires of others -- his wife Sylvina who yearns for Miami, his daughter Laura who lives to dance -- until he meets Yolanda, Laura's dance teacher, who brings out within him desires that can never be put to rest again. The story ends in what I can only call a collision -- but a collision that the reader has foreseen, and anticipates, perhaps as absolution. And even after the story has long ended, I find myself wanting to retread the steps up to the narrow balcony of the Catina de Lua, and imagine that Rejas and Dyer are due to reappear at any minute, and that Rejas will begin anew, to murmur of his past, and that I will listen humbly, as we all do, when faced with a tale of great sacrifice.
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