“We don’t get the families we deserve”

[tolerantbunny]

 

Så jeg leste boka "A Little Life" av Hanya Yanagihara, og jeg er sjokkert. Jeg møtte kjærlige, snille og trofaste karakterer som hjalp meg å forstå hva et overvunnet problem betyr når støtte fra venner er alt vi har. Denne boken er tidløs. En klassiker av moderne forfatterskap. Hovedtemaet skjult for leseren er den menneskelige tilstanden med frykt og traumer.

“He was pleasantly exhausted, but then he was always exhausted those days: it was as if the daily effort it took to appear normal was so great that it left energy for little else. (He was aware, sometimes, of seeming wooden, icy, of being boring, which he recognized that here might have been considered the greater misfortune than being whatever it was he was.)”

 

Setningene som sjokkerte meg mest var dette:

“Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?”

"He saw how hard Jude tried…he saw how determined he was, he saw how brave he was being. And this reminded him that he, too, had to keep trying. Both of them were uncertain; both of them were trying as much as they could; both of them would doubt themselves, would progress and recede. But they would both keep trying, because they trusted the other, and because the other person was the only other person who would ever be worth such hardships, such difficulties, such insecurities and exposure.

[…]

…he loved knowing…he was making Jude happy, loved knowing that Jude wanted affection and that he was the person who was allowed to provide it. Was this arrogance? Was this pride? Was this self-congratulation? He didn’t think so; he didn’t care."

"He will be reminded of how trapped he is, trapped in a body he hates, with a past he hates, and he will never be able to change either. He will want to cry, from frustration and hatred and pain.."

 

Hva synes de om boka for de som leste den?

 

❤️  A, en råd: ikke les denne boken

 

 

 

 

Endret 14. januar 2020 av tolerantbunny

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