Alexander Chee

Edinburgh (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay

'Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing ... One of the best American novels of this century' Boston Globe

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. At their summer camp, situated in an idyllic and secluded lakeside retreat, Fee grapples with his complicated feelings towards his best friend, Peter. But as Fee comes to learn how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. Yet the actions of the director have vast consequences, and in their wake, Fee blames only himself.

In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There, he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter - and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526609137
• Artikelnr.: 54424887

Autorenporträt

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays 2016, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Guernica, and Tin House, among others. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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Rezensionen

Perlentaucher-Notiz zur Dlf-Rezension

Rezensentin Tanya Lieske hat dieser Roman über sexuellen Missbrauch in einem amerikanischen Knabenchor tief beeindruckt: Gespickt mit dunkler Symbolik, unterfüttert mit der Familiengeschichte des Protagonisten und kontrastiert mit seiner eigenen Homosexualität, wird die Missbrauchserzählung ihr zufolge nicht zu einer einfachen Verurteilung des Täters oder zu Bewältigungsliteratur, sondern zu einem vielschichtigen Spiel mit den Folgen traumatischer Erlebnisse. Lieskes Fazit: Gerade weil keine einfachen Botschaften übermittelt werden, ist die Lektüre so bereichernd.

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