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The Vanishing Half : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

Name: The Vanishing Half : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
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Author: Brit Bennett
ISBN: 9780349701479

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE

"An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book," Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019.

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Author: Brit Bennett
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Book Group
Language: Angļu valoda
ISBN code: 9780349701479
Cover type: Soft cover
Year of publication:2021
Number of pages:384

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Dvīņu māsas Vīgnes vienmēr būs identiskas. Taču pēc tam, kad viņas ir uzaugušas kopā mazā, dienvidu melnādaino kopienā un sešpadsmit gadu vecumā aizbēgušas, kā pieaugušajiem atšķiras ne tikai viņu ikdienas dzīve, bet pilnīgi viss: viņu ģimenes, kopienas, viņu rasu identitāte. Pēc desmit gadiem viena māsa dzīvo kopā ar savu melnādaino meitu tajā pašā dienvidu pilsētā, no kuras viņa reiz mēģināja aizbēgt. Otra slepus uzdodas par balto, un viņas baltais vīrs neko nezina par viņas pagātni. Tomēr, pat ja viņas šķir tik daudz jūdžu un tikpat daudz melu, dvīņu likteņi joprojām ir savstarpēji saistīti. Kas notiks ar nākamo paaudzi, kad krustosies viņu pašu meitu stāstu līnijas?

Apvienojot vairākus šīs ģimenes pavedienus un paaudzes, sākot no dziļajiem dienvidiem līdz Kalifornijai, no 1950. līdz 90. gadiem, Brita Beneta rada stāstu, kas vienlaikus ir aizraujošs, emocionāls ģimenes stāsts un izcila Amerikas pagātnes vēstures izpēte. Ieskatoties daudz tālāk par rasu jautājumiem, grāmata "The Vanishing Half" (Izzūdošā puse) ņem vērā pagātnes ilgstošo ietekmi, jo tā veido cilvēka lēmumus, vēlmes un cerības, un pēta dažus no daudzajiem iemesliem un jomām, kurās cilvēki dažreiz jūtas spiesti dzīvot kā kaut kas cits, nevis saskaņā ar savu izcelsmi.

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"Absolūti burvīgs romāns.. Man ļoti patika šī grāmata," Bernardine Evaristo, 2019. gada Bukera balvas ieguvēja.