Emma Cline: The Guest
Vieras (suom. Cristina Sandu)
””’My dad would be happy if I was gone. They don’t care,’
‘I’m sure they do’, Alex said, ‘I’m sure they care,’ though, as she said it, she didn’t believe it was true. Even for people like Jack, with parents like his. Or the kids at the party the night before. Hundreds of years ago, their parents might have abandoned their babies in the woods. Instead, the neglect was stretched out over many years, a slowmotion withering. The kids were still abandoned, still neglected in the woods, but the forest was lovely.”
Vieraus monella tasolla, irrallisuus, kyynisyys ehkä opportunismikin. Lopulta tässä kirjassa itseäni ei viehättänyt niinkään teemat, nykyajan kritisointi ja roolien hämäävä sekoittaminenkaan vaan eniten sen tunnelma. Tämä oli kuin jännitysnäytelmä, joka oli pakko hotkaista kerralla.
“Love as a sort of catch-all term whose mere invocation was enough, a way to avoid having to acknowledge how you actually felt. It would be easier for Jack if he didn’t expect so much, if he understood these words were just gestures at meaning, not meaning itself.”
Hesarin arvio kirjasta täällä, Guardianin täällä. Jos en ole muuten aikaisemmin sanonut niin Guardianilla on mahtavat kulttuurisivut!
