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Taschenbuch, 1. Januar 1998

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Taschenbuch: 272 Seiten
Verlag: Riverhead Trade; Auflage: Reprint (1. Januar 1998)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1573226491
ISBN-13: 978-1573226493
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,1 x 1,9 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.162.548 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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"During the war, we kept our Jew in a box." So begins The Man in the Box, Thomas Moran's debut novel. The Jew is Dr. Robert Weiss, an Austrian doctor on the run from the Nazis; the box is a small space built into the back of a hayloft owned by Herr Lukasser, an Austrian farmer. In the course of his two-year confinement, Dr. Weiss's only contact with the outside world is through Lukasser's son, Niki, whose life the doctor saved many years before, and Niki's blind girlfriend, Sigi. To these two teenagers he imparts the story of his life, fantastical tales conveyed in whispers through the wooden wall of his cell. Writing in spare, clean prose, Mr. Moran captures perfectly the tumultuous interior life of children on the verge of adulthood: the petty cruelties they visit on one another, their sexual stirrings and inchoate longings of adolescence. In the case of Niki, the added burden of the secret he must keep makes this passage particularly perilous--to himself, his family, and the Man in the Box. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Journalist Moran takes on a daunting subject--the Holocaust--through a narrow but encompassing focus in this first novel. The man who knocks on the Lukassers' door in the Austrian Tirol village of Sankt Vero is Dr. Robert Weiss, who years before saved the life of the Lukassers' infant son Niki by performing an emergency appendectomy while staying as a paying guest in their home; he has escaped transportation to the death camps. The narrator, Niki, is a teenager when Weiss returns, the only one of the five children born to taciturn grocer Lukasser and his nervous wife to live into adolescence. When Lukasser, despite the fears of his wife and mother, constructs a tiny room--"the box"--in the barn for "their" Jew, Niki and his friend Sigi, a blind girl, become Weiss' lifeline. Over the next two years, relationships shift and change: between Weiss and his benefactors/jailers, within the family, and among the villagers. A Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club alternate selection; expect interest. Mary Carroll -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

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Moran better not lose his grip... 16. Juni 2000

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Because he is on the verge (in my opinion) of greatness. If he challenges himself more as a writer and a wordsmith and deepens his thinking, he will be under serious consideration for the Nobel. He is a humanist. And his writing is great humanist writing, but his ability (again, my humble opinion) has not yet matured. *ALL* of his books so far are worth reading.

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Interesting gem with complex characters 9. M�rz 2000

Von Ein Kunde

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The strength of The Man in the Box is the clarity of the depiction of complex characters - even bit characters. The narrator's grandfather, for example, is referred to only in one short passage explaining the half-orphanhood of the narrator's best friend. Yet in the short passage a real three dimensional portrait of a hard, drinking man unmissed except, perhaps, by his wife.

No one is wholely evil or wholely saint ... in fact the motivation for hiding the Jew in the box is less than morally pure. And the Jew, isolated in his box with adolescents as his primary audience, has a wide range of responses to his current situation and to his excessive time to review his past.

This is not yet a great book but it is very good and its strength indicate that Thomas Moran is a writer well worth watching for.

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If the author wrote 100 novels, I'd read every one. 9. November 1999

Von Ein Kunde

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Moran's characters fully find their voice. Life is wierd, and Moran gives us a full color picture from inside their brains. Like nothing you've ever read.

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