Swamplandia!, English Edition - Nominiert: I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2013
Reduzierte Artikel in dieser Kategorie
| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2012 |
| Seiten | 336 |
| Format | 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 230 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099555832 |
| EAN | 9780099555834 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09955583EA |
Die Familie Bigtree ist weit über Floridas Sümpfe hinaus für ihren Vergügungspark Swamplandia berühmt. Ava träumte zwar schon immer davon, der große Star der Alli-gatoren-Show zu werden, doch seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter bleiben die Zuschauer weg. Nachdem erst ihr Bruder, dann ihr Vater aufs Festland verschwanden sind, ist das Mädchen alleine für die Insel und die siebzig Alligatoren verantwortlich und für ihre ältere Schwester Osceola, die ihr Herz an einen Geist verloren hat. Als auch noch Osceola abhaut, bricht Ava zu einer gefährlichen Odyssee durch den Sumpf auf. Statt gegen Alligatoren kämpft sie nun um ihre Familie und entpuppt sich dabei als wahre Heldin.
Kurzbeschreibung:
The eagerly anticipated, triumphant debut novel from the prize-winning author of St Lucy\'s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Klappentext:
In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion alligator-wrestler Hilola Bigtree, has succumbed to cancer, and Ava, her resourceful but terrified 13-year-old daughter, is left in charge with her two siblings. But Ava\'s sister has embarked on a romantic relationship with a ghost, her brother has defected to a rival theme park, and her father is AWOL. And then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, promising he can save both her sister and the park...
Swamplandia! was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and shortlisted for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Rezension:
Ms Russell has produces a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells. With Ava she has created a goofy and self-conscious girl who is young enough to hope that all darkness has an answering lightness. Inevitably she must learn otherwise. Swamplandia! is ultimately about the aching beauties of youth - the way life begins with such dumb sweetness, while the lessons that give it meaning lurk around each bend like terrifying gators in a mossy fragrant swamp The Economist