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Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Av Lionel Shriver

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about motherhood. How much is her fault? In Lionel Shriver's hands this sensational, chilling and memorable story of a woman who raised a monster becomes a metaphor for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.
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Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Marie Claire, and many others. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.

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Once in a while, a stunningly powerful novel comes along, knocks you sideways and takes your breath away: this is it... a horrifying, original, witty, brave and deliberately provocative investigation into all the casual assumptions we make about family life, and motherhood in particular

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.7/5

  1. 5/5 Susan

    In some ways, Kevin is an incidental character. The true subject is Eva, a very unreliable narrator, and what the reader decides about her.

  2. 1/5 Ewa

    Hoppades på en spännande historia då jag läst om psykopater i Robert Hare's "Without conscience" där denna omnämns men orkade inte igenom den,så amerikanskt tradig,blablabla. Kanske man blir kräsnare med åren,förr envisades jag med att läsa klart alla böcker jag påbörjat och ibland blev det bättre och bättre med lite tålamod. Nu hamnar böckerna i stadsmissionspåsen om de inte fångat intresset efter högst en tredjedels läsning!

  3. 5/5 Nike

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