Dust Never Settles - Libroj.org

Poŝlibro, 384 paĝoj

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 15-a de decembro 2022 de Oneworld Publications.

ISBN:: 978-0-86154-316-8

(1 recenzo)

'I have seen ghosts. They will not rest. The whispers of the past are all around...'

Anaïs Echeverría left Peru, the country where she grew up, many years ago. She has built a new life for herself in London: engaged and pregnant, she dares to believe that she has left the ghosts of her family's past behind.

But now she must return to Lima to sell her ancestral home, the notorious yellow house that looms over the sprawling city below. Concealed within its walls are spectres from the past that demand her attention, remnants of the injustices on which both her country and her house were built.

The Dust Never Settles sweeps from the bustling beaches and teeming salsa halls of contemporary Lima to the rise and fall of the Inca empire; from vengeful Andean gods, to fishermen crammed into local ceviche bars and a civil war that will devastate …

'I have seen ghosts. They will not rest. The whispers of the past are all around...'

Anaïs Echeverría left Peru, the country where she grew up, many years ago. She has built a new life for herself in London: engaged and pregnant, she dares to believe that she has left the ghosts of her family's past behind.

But now she must return to Lima to sell her ancestral home, the notorious yellow house that looms over the sprawling city below. Concealed within its walls are spectres from the past that demand her attention, remnants of the injustices on which both her country and her house were built.

The Dust Never Settles sweeps from the bustling beaches and teeming salsa halls of contemporary Lima to the rise and fall of the Inca empire; from vengeful Andean gods, to fishermen crammed into local ceviche bars and a civil war that will devastate the nation. Hauntingly beautiful, effortlessly poetic and epic in scope, it is the story of Anaïs's uneasy homecoming, and a reckoning with secrets that refuse to stay buried.

3 eldonoj

Stephanie Jane recenzis Dust Never Settles de Karina Lickorish Quinn

Such an accomplished debut

5 steloj

If, like me, you are a fan of South American magical realism novels then The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn is an absolute must-read. I was glued to its pages from the first to the last and am still struggling to believe that such an accomplished creation is Quinn's debut. I adored the idea of the perpetually mutating Lima house, the ancestral home of the Echeverrìa family, where our protagonist, Anaïs, either finds or completely loses herself. I'm still not entirely sure which is more appropriate.

Quinn intertwines Anaïs' story with that of a former Echeverrìa maid, Julia, who died under unfortunate circumstances, but was resurrected as a saint. In following these two women through mystical, magical experiences and over several centuries of Peruvian history I was frequently in awe of the incredible scenarios Quinn imagines and I loved the fantastic characters who people her tale from Anaïs' …

If, like me, you are a fan of South American magical realism novels then The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn is an absolute must-read. I was glued to its pages from the first to the last and am still struggling to believe that such an accomplished creation is Quinn's debut. I adored the idea of the perpetually mutating Lima house, the ancestral home of the Echeverrìa family, where our protagonist, Anaïs, either finds or completely loses herself. I'm still not entirely sure which is more appropriate.

Quinn intertwines Anaïs' story with that of a former Echeverrìa maid, Julia, who died under unfortunate circumstances, but was resurrected as a saint. In following these two women through mystical, magical experiences and over several centuries of Peruvian history I was frequently in awe of the incredible scenarios Quinn imagines and I loved the fantastic characters who people her tale from Anaïs' self-involved Mother to terribly-English Rupert, the abandoned two-headed cat, Inki-Killa, to young Anaïs herself - a child who spent her early years surrounded by her family's ghosts.

Story threads weave around each other, turning back on themselves and linking at wonderfully surprising moments which, I know, sounds like it would make for a confusing read, but I found reading this whole novel to be a wonderfully immersive experience. The Dust Never Settles reminded me of novels such as Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky and One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with hints of The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan. If any of those novels are among your favourites too then I'm pretty confident you'll love The Dust Never Settles as much as I did.