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Der 15-jährige Schüler Gabriel aus Nord-London erleidet einen Schock, als er von der Trennung seiner Eltern erfährt. Hilflos wäre er seiner Einsamkeit auf schwankendem Boden ausgeliefert, gäbe es nicht Archie, seinen verlorenen, aber immer erinnerten Zwillingsbruder. Und natürlich seine eigene bemerkenswerte künstlerische Begabung.
Hanif Kureishi, geb. 1954 als Sohn einer Engländerin und eines Pakistani in London, wurde mit seinem Drehbuch für Stephen Frears' Film 'Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon' 1985 international bekannt . 1998 schrieb er das Drehbuch zu Patrice Chéreaus Film 'Intimacy', der bei den Berliner Festspielen 2001 den Goldenen Bären gewann. Für sein Romandebüt erhielt er 1990 den Whitbread Prize. Hanif Kureishi ist Verfasser zahlreicher Drehbücher, Erzählbände und Romane.
Produktdetails
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- Seitenzahl: 177
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 180mm
- Gewicht: 116g
- ISBN-13: 9780571210855
- ISBN-10: 0571210856
- Artikelnr.: 09967121
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Gabriel´s Gift describes in a subtle way the life of fifteen-year old Gabriel, a talented artist, who has immense family problems. His mother, Christine, has left Gabriel´s father because he is an unsucessful musician and a drinker. But in this difficult time, Gabriel is supported by the …
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Gabriel´s Gift describes in a subtle way the life of fifteen-year old Gabriel, a talented artist, who has immense family problems. His mother, Christine, has left Gabriel´s father because he is an unsucessful musician and a drinker. But in this difficult time, Gabriel is supported by the famous rock star Lester Jones. Partially the story is written in a witty, nice and vivid way. However, if you don´t like to read about family problems and such stuff, you should read something else, because this book is full of it.
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The book Gabriel´s Gift from Hanif Kureishi is about a 15 year old boy whose parents got separated. His dad, Rex, is a passionate musician woh has no success and suffers from this very much. His mum Christine forced Rex to liave her and wants to start a new life without Rex.
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The book Gabriel´s Gift from Hanif Kureishi is about a 15 year old boy whose parents got separated. His dad, Rex, is a passionate musician woh has no success and suffers from this very much. His mum Christine forced Rex to liave her and wants to start a new life without Rex.
Whereas Christine seems to enjoy her new freedom Rex gets very desperate. Gabriel wants his parents to be together again, of course. He convinced his father, who already gave up hope of having work, success and Christine again, to give leasons for children of rich people. He teaches them to play the guitar and is admired by the parents of them. Rex´s life goes straight up and finally he spends an evening with Christine again. They decide to try it one more time and they have success.
In my opinion the book was really good and not too hard to read. But I think the title of the book should not be Gabriel´s Gift but Rex´s Gift. It shows that a gift-in this case Rex gift-can lead your life up and down.
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Gabriel´s Gift is a story about the 15 years old Gabriel. Gabriel lives at his Mum´s flat. Gabriel´s father is out of work and has an alcohol problem. But Gabriel loves him and visits his father very often.
Gabriel is very talented in painting and he has a big dream: he wants to …
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Gabriel´s Gift is a story about the 15 years old Gabriel. Gabriel lives at his Mum´s flat. Gabriel´s father is out of work and has an alcohol problem. But Gabriel loves him and visits his father very often.
Gabriel is very talented in painting and he has a big dream: he wants to make a film.
After he had paint a nice picture of a famous musician, Gabriel sells a copy of it to an old friend of his parents who is the owner of a restaurant. So he can help his father to get some money by giving him that, he got for the picture. By his old friend "Speedy" Gabriel´s father gets to know a man who offers him a new job as a teacher for instruments. At the end of the story Gabriel´s parents come together again and marry. Also his dream are going to become true: Gabriel starts to make his first film.
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Gabriel´s Gift, written by Hanif Kureishi, tells the story of 15-year old Gabriel who lives with his mother Christine and his au pair Hannah and his father Rex, who leaves the family at the beginning of the story. The whole family has a kind of "gift" . Rex is a musician, who used …
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Gabriel´s Gift, written by Hanif Kureishi, tells the story of 15-year old Gabriel who lives with his mother Christine and his au pair Hannah and his father Rex, who leaves the family at the beginning of the story. The whole family has a kind of "gift" . Rex is a musician, who used to play the guitar pretty well but he is very unlucky and unsuccessful.
Gabriel himself is very talented for drawing and painting and he´s also writing scripts for his own movie.
There are of course also other persons like Speedy for example, who helps Gabriel to make his dream come true. The story tells the up and down which is typical for a teenager´s life connected to an individual plot.
His parents live seperately and he has to face problems with drugs and the death of his twin brother Archie.
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The story is about a fifteen-year old boy , who lives in North London with his mother and his self-conscious au pair Hannah. After the breakup of his parents, his unemployed father Rex, formerly a well-known musician, who still lives in the past, has to move to an unsafe London area and hides …
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The story is about a fifteen-year old boy , who lives in North London with his mother and his self-conscious au pair Hannah. After the breakup of his parents, his unemployed father Rex, formerly a well-known musician, who still lives in the past, has to move to an unsafe London area and hides himself in desparation. Gabriel has to grow up very fast and becomes an independent person. The only help is remembering his dead twin brother Archie and talking to him. He is a very talented boy and during his meeting with a seventies rock star L. Jones they talk about drawing pictures and also about G.´s "gift".
Hanif Kureishi shows with this book that the children of single parents, not guarded by their families, have to grow up faster than others to realize their dreams.
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Writing a novel about fifteen-year-old Gabriel, a schoolboy of London`s 1990`s confronted with the problem that his father leaves his home because of permanent arguments, Hanif Kureishi tells a story about getting along with difficult situations by using the gift of imagination in order to flee the …
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Writing a novel about fifteen-year-old Gabriel, a schoolboy of London`s 1990`s confronted with the problem that his father leaves his home because of permanent arguments, Hanif Kureishi tells a story about getting along with difficult situations by using the gift of imagination in order to flee the problems of reality as Gabriel does. Sticking to his vision of making a film, Gabriel follows the advice of Lester Jones, a rock star of the seventies and former partner of his unemployed father, to go on using his talents in order to make his dream of a successful future full of creative projects come true. So he finds the power to support both his father and his mother and he manages to control his own life in charge of emotional confusion which had swallowed him after the collapsing of his family. Reading this book and seeing the enormous growth of mind by believing in the power of one`s own abilities makes you trust in finding your way through life without loosing your values and hope.
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The main story is about a boy called Gabriel. He grows up in a poor part of London with his mother Christine and his father Rex. When he was a baby his twin brother Archie dies of Meningitis. Since that incident he remembers his dead brother every time he gets into an unusual situation and …
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The main story is about a boy called Gabriel. He grows up in a poor part of London with his mother Christine and his father Rex. When he was a baby his twin brother Archie dies of Meningitis. Since that incident he remembers his dead brother every time he gets into an unusual situation and talks to him in his mind. The current story shows a 15 aged Gabriel who has to handle his life while his father an musician and his mother are going to start a new life on their own. Gabriel who lives with his mother gets gradually familiar with his father´s world after a famous musician Lester Jones offered Rex a job. "Angel", how Gabriel is sometimes called, gets also known to old friends of his father. Nw he discovers new abilities: the drawing and film making. The father of his friend Zac, "Speedy" is one of his supporters who exposes Gabriel´s picture in his restaurant......
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Hanif Kureishi´s "Gabriel´s gift" tells you a story about a schizophrenic teenager, his careful mom, his mostly jobless dad and his father´s old friend Lester Jones and about the trouble Gabriel gets into because of copying and selling a copy of a picture, originally …
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Hanif Kureishi´s "Gabriel´s gift" tells you a story about a schizophrenic teenager, his careful mom, his mostly jobless dad and his father´s old friend Lester Jones and about the trouble Gabriel gets into because of copying and selling a copy of a picture, originally drawn by Lester, to the gay Speedy who´s owning a restaurant and who´s name could also stand for the drugs he´s taking. Having all these characters really good and quite detailed described, Hanif Kureishi has written an interesting story about what life can mean to a teenager growing up in really difficult and extraordinary conditions.
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