Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Bravermans, Peter and Mira, traffic in other people’s stories. He is a “stuttery professor of Russian” and a respected translator of Solzhenitsyn. She is a psychotherapist and professional “gatherer of stories.” Born in the “difficult country” known as Yugoslavia before its bloody dissolution, she is steeped in the work of Melanie Klein and D. W. Winnicott. The Bravermans live in the “fundamentally grubby” London neighborhood of Camden Town, the silence of their cramped and childless apartment broken only by the incessant complaints of Mira’s upscale patients who, as the millennium approaches, have one thing on their minds.

“Sylvia Brownrigg has written one of the most outstanding and properly adult novels of recent years… For once, the word ‘unforgettable’ is justified.” —The Observer (UK)

“The Delivery Room is a beautiful novel, rich and dense and satisfying. Brownrigg sees with amazing depth and tenderness into the hearts of her real-as-real characters — and into the reader’s heart, too.” —Michael Chabon

“A stylist of taste and reserve… The thoughtfulness, the intelligence, of Brownrigg’s narration, its wry observations and moments of sharp insight into human suffering, are its most striking features.” —Los Angeles Times

“[Brownrigg]’s calibration of grief and compassion as she switches viewpoints among many characters and her scrupulous sensitivity lend the narrative a quiet compulsion. A gifted writer delivers a classic North London novel (sober; domestic; emotionally intelligent; middle-class) enhanced by insight and tenderness.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A stylist of taste and reserve… The thoughtfulness, the intelligence, of Brownrigg’s narration, its wry observations and moments of sharp insight into human suffering, are its most striking features.” (read the full review) —Los Angeles Times

“Thoughtful… The Delivery Room is a companionable, psychological novel with an ambitious context. Read it for its solid insights into life and humanness; they reward in generous measure.” (read the full review) —San Francisco Chronicle

“A stunning interpretation of birth, death, war and bereavement.” —Scotland on Sunday

“Grippingly readable… In its ambition and commitment, The Delivery Room stands out as one of the most striking and pleasing novels so far this year.” —The Times Literary Supplement

“Intensely intelligent and highly readable.” —The Times

“Brownrigg’s ability to invent character is outstanding. . . This is a novel in which there is a satisfying sense of trespass and of comprehensive revelation, as Brownrigg ambitiously plaits the narratives of patients and therapist together. She would make an excellent, if rebellious, analyst herself.” —The Observer

“A London therapist gets a lesson in pain and empathy in Brownrigg’s sparkling latest (after Morality Tale). It’s 1998, and Mira Braverman’s home office (dubbed “the delivery room” by her husband) overfloweth with troubled types. There’s “the Bigot,” Howard, a divorced diplomat who needles Mira about her Serbian heritage; “the American,” Jess, a single female journalist who longs for a baby; “the Aristocrat,” Caroline, who is fighting a battle with infertility; and “the Mourning Madonna,” Kate, who lost a daughter in utero. Only when Mira’s husband, Peter, is diagnosed with terminal lymphoma is Mira able to empathize with her patients, particularly as Peter’s health declines. In many ways, this novel is also about parenting—those who long to be mothers and can’t, and those who are ambivalent about the responsibilities. Because so much of the novel revolves around sessions, the narrative can become claustrophobic, but patient readers will appreciate Brownrigg’s detailed portrayals of the therapist and client dynamic, and the prose is tack sharp and effortlessly lyrical.”
—Publishers Weekly

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