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On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case.

As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue".

Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .

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On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.

Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."

The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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A guys point of view 18. Juli 2002

Von "keithperry3"

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I normally do not read this style of book, I stay with books like The Price of Immortality and WOT series but my wife had bought it and insisted that I read it. This is a story of a murdered teenage girl and her observations of what happens with her family on earth after her murder tell the story. It's incredibly moving, don't tell anyone but I found myself tearing up often throughout the book. This is one of those books that stays with you long after you have finished reading it, but in a good way, not in a sad one. It also made me laugh, strange as that may sound. All the characters are very real, and you begin to love them as Susie does. I'm highly impressed by Alice Sebold's storytelling, and I look forward to reading anything else she may write.
A different kind of story but very very good is The Price of Immortality. I highly recommend it!

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Malerei in Form von Worten 7. September 2002

Von Thomas Pilz

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Vor allem als Künstler war ich von diesem Buch besonders beeindruckt. Gedanken und Gefühle begleiten einen selbst nach dem Lesen. Einmal angefangen, konnte ich es nicht wieder aus den Händen legen. Es erzählt über den Tod und das Leben danach, der Suche nach einem Grund...einmal aus einer ganz anderen, neuen und faszinierenden Sichtweise. Die Charaktere erscheinen glaubhaft auch wenn diese Novelle etwas verträumt erscheint. Kann man nur hoffen, dass eine Übersetzung bald folgt und den Menschen, die der englischen Sprache fremd sind, dieses Werk nicht länger vorenthalten wird.

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Spannende, individuelle Lektüre für lange Abende! 27. Februar 2003

Von Martina Jauch

Nachdem ich an Bestseller ansonsten relativ skeptisch herangehe, hat mich diese ungewöhnliche Geschichte auf Anhieb fasziniert. Ein 13jähriges Mädchen wird im Amerika der Siebziger Jahre ermordet in einem Kornfeld aufgefunden. Ab der ersten Zeile erzählt Alice Sebold packend, wie Susie nun in den Himmel kommt, was dieser für sie bedeutet, und vor allem, wie die Hinterbliebenden mit ihrem Tod fertigwerden. Obwohl das Englisch auch für fortgeschrittene Anfänger verständlich ist, lässt einen die Thematik und das weitere Leben von Susies Familie und Freunden, ebenso wie der weitere Werdegang ihres Mörders nicht mehr los. So tragisch die Geschichte auch scheinen mag, gleitet sie doch nie ins Pathetische und Klischeehafte ab, sondern behandelt mit ansprechender Ernsthaftigkeit das verwobene Dasein von Toten und Lebenden. Fast alle Figuren wachsen einem mit fortgeschrittener Seitenzahl mehr ans Herz! Alles in allem, eine unbedingt empfehlenswerte Behandlung eines recht eigenwilligen, dabei stets interessant bleibenden Themas. Das Buch eröffnet einem nicht nur einen neuen Blick auf die Welt, sondern relativiert auch scheinbar ausweglos scheinende Problemsituationen. Man sollte nicht zu spät abends mit dem Lesen anfangen, denn schon nach wenigen Seiten wird man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen wollen! Einer der gelungensten Unterhaltungsromane der letzten Monate.

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