 On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie  Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the  latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice  Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven,  where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps  watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen  killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions  it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles  the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of  her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to  go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides  or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue". The Lovely Bones  works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to  accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living,  following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates  in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her  mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of  the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through  the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie  riding spiritual shotgun...
On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie  Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the  latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice  Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven,  where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps  watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen  killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions  it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles  the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of  her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to  go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides  or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue". The Lovely Bones  works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to  accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living,  following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates  in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her  mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of  the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through  the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie  riding spiritual shotgun...
Freitag, 13. April 2012
Alice Sebold - The lovely bones
 On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie  Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the  latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice  Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven,  where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps  watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen  killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions  it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles  the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of  her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to  go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides  or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue". The Lovely Bones  works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to  accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living,  following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates  in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her  mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of  the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through  the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie  riding spiritual shotgun...
On her way home from school on a snowy December day, 14-year-old Susie  Salmon is lured into a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the  latest victim of a serial killer. The Lovely Bones, Alice  Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, unfolds from heaven,  where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps  watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen  killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions  it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles  the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of  her "simplest dreams", where "there were no teachers... We never had to  go inside except for art class... The boys did not pinch our backsides  or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue". The Lovely Bones  works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to  accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living,  following her family's dramas over the years. Her family disintegrates  in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her  mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of  the new hole in his family and her younger sister Lindsey moves through  the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie  riding spiritual shotgun...
Donnerstag, 12. April 2012
Christian Kracht - Imperium
In »Imperium« erzählt Christian Kracht eine  Aussteigergeschichte in den deutschen Kolonien der Südsee, indem er  virtuos und gut gelaunt mit den Formen des historischen Abenteuerromans  eines Melville, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson oder Jack London  spielt. Die Welt wollte er retten, eine neue Religion stiften, gar ein  eigenes Reich gründen - eine Utopie verwirklichen, die nicht nur ihn  selbst, sondern die Menschheit erlöst, fernab der zerstörerischen  europäischen Zivilisation, die gerade aufbricht in die Moderne und in  die Katastrophen des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs. Doch in der  Abgeschiedenheit der Südsee, in einer Kolonie des wilhelminischen  Deutschland, gerät ein von einem vegetarischen Spleen besessener  Sonnenanbeter in eine Spirale des Wahnsinns, die die Abgründe des 20.  Jahrhunderts ahnungsvoll vorwegnimmt.
Mittwoch, 4. April 2012
Martin Suter - Allmen und der rosa Diamant
 Es wird ernst: der erste große Fall für "Allmen International  Inquiries". Es gilt, einen seltenen Diamanten aufzuspüren, viele  Millionen wert. Ein Fall, in dem nichts ist, wie es scheint. Noch dazu  ein Fall von globalem Interesse. Das Duo muss unter Beweis stellen, wie  sehr es die Kunst des Hoch- und Tiefstapelns beherrscht unter  Profi-Bedingungen.
Es wird ernst: der erste große Fall für "Allmen International  Inquiries". Es gilt, einen seltenen Diamanten aufzuspüren, viele  Millionen wert. Ein Fall, in dem nichts ist, wie es scheint. Noch dazu  ein Fall von globalem Interesse. Das Duo muss unter Beweis stellen, wie  sehr es die Kunst des Hoch- und Tiefstapelns beherrscht unter  Profi-Bedingungen.
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