So Nora drives out there soon after to take a look, then sells it, and then tells her children who are not at all happy. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. She has to find her financial feet and deal with the work-world, all while trying to find a balance that will work for her children. His journalism from the 1980s was collected in ‘The Trial of the Generals’ (1990). Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Why did one of her sons develop a stutter during these two months? But our quotidian troubles and triumphs rarely create ripples beyond our own little ponds. They are filled with something that none of us knows yet. The sentences are deceptively plain, and at first the novel feels almost colorless, odorless, mute. I listened to this one on Audible, and it was very well performed. Nora is, initially at least, one of Mr. Toibin’s most distant and sealed-off central characters. I suppose she’s let grief, fear of coping on her own, and embarrassment at having to reenter the work force stifle her better nature, but gosh, being supportive of Nora is like trying to tack jello to the wall – there's no substance to her. For the most part, it is a dull account of one woman's stoicism following the death of her husband. There should be a sequel, Kathleen and Linda! Обожавам бавното му, умозрително писане, наблюдателността, покоя, наситените с емоция и смисъл пролуки между фразите. During this journey, she starts to understand her children and others with more compassion and interest in their lives. I understand that Nora is grieving and that we can only assume she loved her husband, although there’s scant evidence to support this. If Fiona dumps her humourless boyfriend, if Aine enters politics, if Donal loses his stutter and becomes a journalist and photographer, what happens to curious Conor when he finishes secondary, how Nora fares into her 50s, etc. Where’s the big slap and the “Snap out of it!”? Nora Webster is just to dry to listen to. (“Being released into the world of others seemed impossible; it was something she did not even want. Mr. Toibin’s prose often has an elegant, visceral simplicity as he describes the slight otherworldliness that Nora finds in her new, solitary life as a widow. He was a fine teacher and a capable, loving partner, although he didn't share her love of music. Well, I’m sure this is a worthy book that I would recommend to my more patient, literary-minded reading friends, but Nora is not someone with whom I wanted to spend another moment. If you tried to explain the plot to someone, and you said, "It's about an Irish woman with four children whose husband dies while she's in her 40's," and you said that she didn't meet anyone or fall in love again, and there's no adultery, no startling revelation, no reversal, no trip to India or the Appalachian trail or the Outback, the book might sound as if it has no. He is currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. Amazon's 2014 Best Books of the Year: The Top 100 in Print Format, (LISTOPIA) Nora Webster - Colm Toibin (4 stars), Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín (Feb 16 Group Fiction Read), 13 Mythological Retellings for Fresh Takes on Familiar Stories. Действието в "Нора Уебстър" обхваща трите години след смъртта на Морис - съпругът на героинята. It begins circa 1969; no dates are mentioned, but one can assign it by historic events and people, and the story closes three years later. This situation will eventually become so fraught that Nora walks out of work half-crazed, with a scissors in her hand. She seems to be all backbone; in a fair fight, she could flatten his version of Henry James in “The Master” without batting an eye. “When she asked herself what she was interested in, she had to conclude that she was interested in nothing at all.”. Start by marking “Nora Webster” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Nora faced her fears head on. She sells the house with little heed to how the decision will affect her children, and with no sense that there are important opinions beyond her own. Турбулентността на епохата с политическите движения и кризи в Ирландия са не просто далечен фон, а контекст на цялостното поведение на героите, на отношенията между тях. Many unknotted threads in this book. (Audible; Fiona Shaw, narrator) 1972 in small-town Ireland. In age, Nora falls between my mother’s and my grandmother’s generations—about the time that women were supposed to aspire only to being housewives and that men were in charge of the finances and the family. What a wonderfully written book. I don't think I would have finished the print version, but I stuck with the audio for Shaw's voice and characterizations--and I'm glad I did! Actually, much of the book’s deceptively quiet drama has to do with Nora’s gradual, subtle reawakening. The Blackwater Lightship (em inglês) foi nomeado em 1999 para o Booker Prize e em 2001 … something mysterious he knew the truth to--came to light when he was ill--did I miss something? Primul roman a fost inspirat din acel timp în BarcelonaThe South; cât și lucrarea sa Homage to Barcelona in anul 1990. 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I almost gave up on this - at first it seemed a narrative of a widow in grief but it does become more than that. Сякаш светът на Нора след смъртта на Морис е terra incognita, в която тя, четиресетгодишната жена, пристъпва за пръв път, предпазливо и колебливо, и й е трудно да разбере. t's a modest elegance that pulls you along in this story of 40-ish Irish widow Nora Webster and her family in County Wexford, in Ireland. Her dead mother and husband both glide eerily into the book in passages that evoke fear and trembling. I have no idea why seemingly perfect Maurice would ever have married Nora, but let’s assume she was a vivacious, engaged spouse before grief took away any semblance of personality. Hanser, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25063-5. Riots are also erupting in Derry, but only a few of the book’s characters want to talk about that, because the prospects seem so grim. Beyond that is a strange kind of peace that Nora has never previously known. Within a few pages I was fully immersed in this tale of love and sorrow in a small Irish village. Nora, 40, has lost her husband Maurice to sudden illness. Why is Norah a loner in her family? Why are her sisters afraid of her? One final bit of good news for Maurice: Nora’s calculations on what she will do with the proceeds from the sale of the house include buying him a black marble headstone. I love Tóibín's writing, but this book just didn't do it for me. I have no idea why seemingly perfect Maurice would ever have married Nora, but let’s assume she was a vivacious, engaged spouse before grief took away any semblance of personality. It seems as though some of her visitors have ulterior motives, and this one is interested in buying Nora’s. And for that to happen, she must begin in a very icy place indeed. Apparently, Colm Tóibín wrote the first chapter of 'Nora Webster' in the spring of 2000, but didn't get to complete it fully until September 2013. Annoyance with a nonstop flow of pious visitors overrides other emotions Nora might feel. Another admirable book that I wish I could say I enjoyed more than I did. Why did one of her sons develop a stutter during these two months? Tóibín, Colm (2014), Nora Webster, Scribner), Penguin/Viking, ISBN 9978-1439138335 Verificați valoarea |isbn=: length Opere în limba română [ modificare | modificare sursă ] Povestea noptii. Repressing her own grief, she helps her four children move on. Some people care more about their surface appearances of emotion, apparently, than acting authentically, and Nora is one of these people. (The two boys can always fend for themselves, she assumes.) Leaving her alone, with two younger boys and two older daughters, she must find her way through life for herself and her children. Why didn't Nora Webster visit her young sons at her sister's house while she attended to her sick husband in a Dublin hospital? Colm Tóibín (ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ) (n. 30 mai 1955 în Enniscorthy, Comitatul Wexford) este un scriitor, jurnalist și critic literar irlandez. She is grieving, but not in the usual ways. В този роман няма сензации, тежки обрати и равносметки. 1978 Tóibín revine în Irlanda, unde începe un studiu de doctorat. So grief has made her a terrible, selfish parent. Sometimes as you pass in the street, your eyes meet a stranger's for a moment before you look away: it's nothing more than a shared acknowledgement of humanity. Nora Webster takes you on a journey of an Irish woman who looses her husband and rediscovers her love of music. A subtle portrait of a bereaved family in late 1960s Ireland. It is a mystery.”, “She would learn how to spend these hours. “What surprised her was the hardness of her resolve, how easy it seemed to turn her back on what she had loved, leave this house on the lane to the cliff for others to know, for others to come to in the summer and fill with different noises.”.