The Lost Language of Cranes
The Lost Language of Cranes
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The Lost Language Of Cranes is so extraordinarily beautiful that it feels like a giant hole has been torn through my chest, right where my heart used to be. I'm a sucker for a book that focusses solely on characters and their lives, and more often than not, my favourite books are contemporaries that leave me wanting more.
David Leavitt does everything I want an author to: subtle emotions that leave tears in my eyes and make me want to scream with the unjustness of it all; writing people, not two-dimensional characters (I feel so deeply for all the people in this book, I really really do); taking the seemingly obvious and turning it completely upside down; using the most amazing combinations of words to describe something as mundane as snow.
I've not read a book so quickly in a long time and all I want to do is read it again. I can't stop thinking about this novel and I don't think I ever will. It's gonna stay with me for a really, really long time.
Un très beau roman sur une famille qui traverse une période de doutes et de difficultés. C'est joliment écrit, les personnages sont attachants et même les personnages secondaires ont droit à une “histoire” qui leur ait propre et les rend “vivants”. Une très belle réussite.