mauami finished reading The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ryder, a musician of international renown, is checking in to a hotel in a city …
I hated how Ishiguro plays with reader's expectations. I loved how Ishiguro plays with reader's expectations.
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mauami finished reading An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
First encounter of Ishiguro, charming.
mauami finished reading Šikmý kostel. Románová kronika ztraceného města, léta 1894–1921 by Karin Lednická
Looking forward to the 2nd part!
Re-telling the past
5 stars
One of the first stories going into the daily life of the vast majority of women up to 100 years ago. Reading leaves one in awe, it's not so long ago, grandmothers could tell - yet the stories were never heard. Reading leaves one with understanding why the stories were never told. Yet, this powerful piece of puzzles of my-our history had to reach the surface. I'm glad it did.
There's a particularly interesting chapter about the first folk adult schools on the Polish territory. Built and led in the spirit of solidarity, they educated people who then went back to their villages and changed the ways folks lived (both culturally and practically: by introducing new tools, seeds and agricultural processes). As always, the church and the nationalists didn't like the grassroot empowerment. It's always dangerous to let people believe it's them who's got the power over their lives. I'd …
One of the first stories going into the daily life of the vast majority of women up to 100 years ago. Reading leaves one in awe, it's not so long ago, grandmothers could tell - yet the stories were never heard. Reading leaves one with understanding why the stories were never told. Yet, this powerful piece of puzzles of my-our history had to reach the surface. I'm glad it did.
There's a particularly interesting chapter about the first folk adult schools on the Polish territory. Built and led in the spirit of solidarity, they educated people who then went back to their villages and changed the ways folks lived (both culturally and practically: by introducing new tools, seeds and agricultural processes). As always, the church and the nationalists didn't like the grassroot empowerment. It's always dangerous to let people believe it's them who's got the power over their lives. I'd love to see the full story of the popular educational movements in a separate book.
I can't wait to see it translated.
mauami started reading Šikmý kostel. Románová kronika ztraceného města, léta 1894–1921 by Karin Lednická
mauami started reading Empusion by Olga Tokarczuk
September 1913, Görbersdorf in Niederschlesien. Inmitten von Bergen steht seit einem halben Jahrhundert das erste …
The first Tokarczuk's novel after Nobel, luckily found in the local library in my mother tongue.