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Statistics in February 2011

Read Books: 5

Pages Read: 1512

night-Challenge: 1

literary awards-Challenge: 1

colors sun-Challenge: 1

book of the month: "doves fly " Melinda Nadj Aboji

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"The Sweet Palace" Elif Shafak

I have heard only good things about the book and after a Friend told me there personally recommended, I bought it immediately. A trip to Turkey seemed to be the perfect time to get to know Shafak prose. But I have taken more than a week to read the novel was finished and repeatedly tried to put the book away. Only after the half I was able to inspire a little more to the story.

The action takes place in Istanbul, in Bombonpalast. This building was built on the ruins of two cemeteries on the orders of a wealthy Russians. The client hopes that he manages to end his life with his ex-wife to return and help her gain back the memory.

The palace is an imaginative building - each floor is different and has been decorated with a different type of balconies. He has one disadvantage - it stinks and is inhabited by vermin. The square in front of the house is used by neighbors as a garbage dump. The subject of dust and the stench seems to symbolize Istanbul: a hectic, full, cluttered city that is home to people of all nations.

Living like that, different people in the Sweet Palace. At the bottom are two brothers, twins or more precisely, her hair salon. One brother grew up in Turkey, the other in Australia. A university professor who has just separated from his wife moves into one of the houses will be - it helps him to his monstrous fat and ugly girlfriend, the incredibly rich, and with his ex-wife's friends. A student who grew up in Switzerland, lived together with his big dog, the smallest apartment. The color blue loving wife, her lover paid her apartment, lives opposite the university professor. One must not forget the following people - the nonstop her apartment cleaning and disinfecting woman from the very top, the Russian entomologist who vegetates as betrayed wife in front of the TV, the superstitious Meyr, the grandfather who tells his grandchildren of Dchinnen and other mythical beings and the mysterious old lady. An interesting mix of eccentric, strange characters, each be represented in a single chapter. Although the residents are very aptly described to me these chapters were eventually too long. Shafak, however abbreviated as the chapters and the individual fates are joined, it will be exciting and the novel gets more dynamic.

The novel design reminded me of "My Name is Red" by Orhan Pamuk. Similar to the Nobel laureate has each chapter as a thumbnail.

Only the beginning is different - Shafak describes her narration, written by the underlines with graphic signs - this has not convinced me. If I do, for example, from the linear narrative read, I do not still see a horizontal line. Then it describes the events before the emergence of the candy palace - the way, how does it, I was not too convinced. I love to read novels that have something new and unexpected at the linguistic level, such a graphical "improvements" but I do not like. I think that inspired the novel can, Shafak told suggestive and sometimes funny, but I would recommend it only partially.

My Rating: 3 / 6

Elif Ş AFAK, Pchli pałac, translated by Anna Akbike Sulimowicz, 500 pages, Wydawnictwo Literackie

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"The Marriage of Zain" Tayyib Salih

Tayyib Salih is one of the most important writers from Sudan, where are the basics of written literature only in the forties of the last century emerged. Previously, stories were passed down orally. Tayyib Salih in 1966 published his first novel, "Days of moving northwards and became one of the founders of the new flow. "The Marriage of Zain" is considered his most important work.

This short novel can be classified into the flow of magical realism. The action takes place in a small Sudanese village. The author can the villagers and the everyday life unlikely to sketch picturesque and warm. The focus then falls on Zain - the local idiot, you might say. He's ugly, he is always happy, he laughs at himself and the world. Zain loves everyone, especially the outcasts - for all he has a warm word and a helping hand. No one in the village seriously Zain. Ridicule is love, especially his tendency to constantly - again and again he chooses a girl and expresses immortal being in love with it. The Sample is therefore an object of desire for all those willing to marry men in the village. Soon, all efforts Mothers, which is exactly her daughter Zain in the eye.

Zain is a Sufi - Al-Hunain - friends, which is regarded as a holy man. Shortly before his death, he predicts that the village area and that Zain will marry the most beautiful girl. His prophecy comes true. Zain's marriage will bring all the villagers in an uproar.

Tayyib Salih begins his narrative with the Neuigekit on Zain's wedding and takes it as an opportunity to represent other residents. He quotes excited conversations and describes the local customs and traditions. This one gets the impression that he represents his dreamland, but this is already far away in the past.

"The Marriage of Zain" seems to be an interesting entry into the literature of the Sudan.

My Rating: 4 / 6

Tajjib Al-Salih, Wesele Zajna, translated by Jolanta Kozlowska, 96 pages, Smak Słowa.

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"Kalteis" Andrea Maria Schenkel

30th Years, and around Munich - are disappearing young women, all pretty, young, dark-haired. Josef Kalteis they followed on his bike to kill her and rape her. All that we learn in the first pages. Nevertheless leg has not written any boring novel.

leg reported dry, almost apathetic about what happened - it describes life in fragments of the victims and their disappearance. More detail is presented only Kathie - a young girl who leaves her hometown in the surrounding countryside to seek work in the City and to lead a more interesting life. The author is the former Munich eerily suggestive dar. The protagonists are all from the working class, which is emphasized by the language.

Many of the victims are described by their relatives, in the form of the police report. The Angehöirgen describe their wives or daughters, their relationships and problems. Between the individual reports "cited" the leg-examination Kalteis of which tees off at first all the accusations.

While reading I felt very much of "Murder Farm" is reminiscent - of the Roman style and design are similar. This has not bothered me - although it lacked the element of surprise but it was still neat, interesting literature.

My Rating: 4.5 / 6

Andrea Maria Schenkel "Kalteis", 154 pages, Nautilus