4.4
Spänningsromaner
The author of ‘The House of the Spirits’ returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction.
The narrator and protagonist of MAYA'S NOTEBOOK is a 19 year old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, so the two strands of the story unfold for the reader at more or less the same time.
This new book is very different from Isabel's previous historical novels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent) teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; a realistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one (Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Maya's voice is modeled on that of Isabel's teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area (San Francisco, Berkeley).
© 2013 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007525164
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 april 2013
4.4
Spänningsromaner
The author of ‘The House of the Spirits’ returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction.
The narrator and protagonist of MAYA'S NOTEBOOK is a 19 year old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, so the two strands of the story unfold for the reader at more or less the same time.
This new book is very different from Isabel's previous historical novels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent) teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; a realistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one (Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Maya's voice is modeled on that of Isabel's teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area (San Francisco, Berkeley).
© 2013 Fourth Estate (Ljudbok): 9780007525164
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 23 april 2013
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2 juni 2013
Splended read!
Irina
26 okt. 2014
Great book
Ewa-Marie
10 juli 2015
Isabel Allende skriver som ingen annan. Ständig favorit i min hylla!
Desiree
28 jan. 2015
Fantastic! A great reader
Sofi
17 maj 2013
Så bra tack!
Andrea
25 sep. 2019
Helt fantastisk bok! Snälla Storytel ta in böcker som denna på svenska och skippa storytel original, serier och all trams! Vad har ni emot internationella författare?! 99,9 är svenskt och inte ens de bra, inte värt pengarna.
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