The Stone World
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Auteur:
Joel Agee
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9781612199542
- 22 februari 2022
- 240 pagina's
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A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of 2022
From the son of acclaimed author James Agee, a haunting novel depicting an American boys childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo.
Joel Agees hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge.
And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.
But the emigrés long for home including Peters step-father, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peters parentss and their tight group of friends.
And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his fathers friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the familys live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer . . .
Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil Joel Agees The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agees A Death in the Family.
From the son of acclaimed author James Agee, a haunting novel depicting an American boys childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo.
Joel Agees hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge.
And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.
But the emigrés long for home including Peters step-father, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peters parentss and their tight group of friends.
And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his fathers friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the familys live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer . . .
Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil Joel Agees The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agees A Death in the Family.
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