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The Swimmer - Hardcover By Bank, Zsuzsa - GOOD
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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780151009329
- Book Title
- Swimmer
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with distant relatives in unfamiliar cities and villages, Kalman keeps his family on the move and shuns anything resembling a home or a steady life. As their father sinks into depression, Kata and her brother create their own imaginary universe: Kata invents relationships with the people they meet during their long journey while Isti converses with the world around him-houses, stones, snow, skies. It is only in rare moments, on riverbanks and lakeshores where Kata and Isti swim with their father, that they experience a semblance of calm and happiness. Moments that feel as if life is just beginning for them . . .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151009325
ISBN-13
9780151009329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30470366
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swimmer
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Bank''s interest in how the imagination can fill absence and longing with portents is grounded in exceptional powers of description, Bank's interest in how the imagination can fill absence and longing with portents is grounded in exceptional powers of description, THE SWIMMER''s greatest strength is in imagining what happens to those left in the wake of a mother''s desertion., PRAISE FOR THE SWIMMER "An outstanding debut novel. Recalls the sunny creepiness of Günter Grass [and] introduces a potentially great voice in world literature."-- The New York Sun, THE SWIMMER's greatest strength is in imagining what happens to those left in the wake of a mother's desertion., PRAISE FOR THE SWIMMER "An outstanding debut novel. Recalls the sunny creepiness of Gnter Grass [and] introduces a potentially great voice in world literature."-- The New York Sun, In this poignant story of loss and longing, first-time novelist Bánk sensitively portrays the barren world of 1950s Hungary through a child's eyes. Kata and her brother, Isti, are young children when their mother leaves their village one day without a word and eventually makes her way to the West. Katalin Velencei's abrupt departure unhinges her stern, bitterly depressed husband, Kálmán, and he embarks on a vagabond existence, dragging the children from one family member to another, never staying long enough to provide stability for the desolate siblings. Isti is the true victim; always a dreamy boy, he begins hearing voices in inanimate objects and finds his only comfort in swimming obsessively in lakes and rivers. Kata relates the story of their wanderings in a matter-of-fact, unemotional tone, trying to understand the grownups who determine her fate and well-being. "Among our people, nobody married for love," she says, and "My mother never contradicted my father. She deserted him." Bánk adroitly refers to the political events in mid-1950s Hungary as dimly perceived background to Kata's narrative. It's as though the violent events in the far-off world are echoed in the small tragedy of their lives. The novel's delicate treatment of Kata's stoicism and powerlessness makes the denouement of this resonant narrative especially heartbreaking.
Lccn
2004-007299
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
833/.92
Lc Classification Number
Pt2662.A56s3913 2004
Copyright Date
2004
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