Fault Lines (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Huston Edwina Wren Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books
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Sol is a gifted but also terrifying six year old; his mother believes he is destined for greatness. He has a birthmark, like his dad, his grandmother and great-grandmother. But when they all make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets emerge about their family's story during World War II. Perhaps birthmarks are not all that has been passed down through this family. With its domestic focus but epic scope, Fault Lines is a compelling, touching and often funny novel about four generations of children and their parents. From California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, the secrets unwind back through time, the present haunted by the past, until the devastating truth is reached.
Fault Lines (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Huston Edwina Wren Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books
This book opened my eyes to so much about life... especially one forgotten part of Nazi history. I told my mom and my sister, if you choose to read this book, then you have to PROMISE yourself you will finish it no matter how difficult the subject matter you have to visualize. It's well worth it. Even though the story takes place sort of backwards chronologically, all the main characters are well developed, and I completely understand how their surface traces of disturbing evil really are just a small clue to the underbelly of the deformed German/Nazi history.I really liked this book. If I were to knock off a star... which I just can't b/c the writing is THAT good, it would be only because I struggled with the content of Sol's Internet fetish, and also because I wanted it to keep going. I virutally yelled at my Kindle when I 'turned' the page and nothing was left. (Well played Nancy Huston, well played.) Oh and also because I want to reread it, but I really need to get laundry done!
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Fault Lines (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Huston Edwina Wren Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books Reviews
beautifully written and a thoughtful analysis and insight into how the experiences of war affect children and how they affect their children
Compelling, disturbing and thought provoking. Loved the main theme, i.e. family legacies. I enjoyed the way it was divided into four tales starting with the present and going back to the preceding four generations, told from the family member's first person voice at six years of age. You see how the tragedies of the past continue to manifest and fester into something horrible in each generation.
Like other readers I found little credibility with the narrative voices, the historical accuracy , or with the general proposition "sins of the fathers (or mothers for that matter) etc.
Can not understand why this is a praiseworthy novel.
The first part of the book was terrible. I nearly quit reading several times. It still doesn't make sense to me....why the beginning of the book was so terrible. I did enjoy the story as told by the other characters.
The book was very drawn out with too many flashbacks and characters. The time periods went back and forth and nothing seemed to be in sequence. I never like to not finish a book once I've started it, so I would have to put it down for a while and force myself to start reading it again. Things finally came together at the end, but reading it was frankly tortuous.
Was a little hard to follow in the beginning of the book. Started getting better from the middle on. I think they should of written the book in reverse. Would of been much easier to follow. But very heartwarming and understandable at the end. A sad story of what actually happened that was unbelievable. Never New children were stolen for there looks or measured by there noses or arms, legs, heads. Makes you wonder how many actually didn't know there own identities...
FAULT LINES is such an interesting novel technically, and so engaging on the page-by-page level, that the question of whether it all hangs together seems almost irrelevant. Each of the four parts of the book has a different narrator, all of whom are six years old at the time of telling. We start in 2004 with Sol, a precocious superkid in California. Then back to 1982 with his father Randall, in New York and Haifa. Then Randall's mother Sadie in Toronto in 1962, and finally to Sol's great-grandmother Erra in Germany in 1944. There is a secret behind this family tree, that readers with a knowledge of the byways of 20th-century history will probably guess long before it is revealed. But Huston is as clever with misdirection as she is with revelation, and while many details of what later happens to the family turn out to be unrelated to this central secret, they all form an ironic commentary on the complexity of mixed bloodlines in the American postwar era.
The brilliance of the book is the use of the six-year-old narrators. Children this young see more than their parents think, but they cannot place what they discover within an understanding of its adult context. So the entire book is a sequence of explorations pushing backwards one generation at a time. This is fascinating, and there are a lot of wonderful discoveries along the way, especially about the beliefs, affections, envies, and experiences that both knit a family together and break it apart. Tone is another matter. Occasionally, the child's voice breaks into a poetry that is clearly that of the author, as in the opening of the fourth section "A scattering of ecstasies. Amaze me, I say to the world. Whirl me, thrill me, stun me, never stop." This scintillates even more in the author's original French, which may help explain why the book was such a success over there. But for the most part, the voice has a more obvious connection to childhood; this is Sol in 2004 "Fortunately God and President Bush are buddies. I think of heaven as one big Texas in the sky, with God rambling around in a cowboy hat and boots and checking to make sure everything's in order on his ranch. Taking an occasional pot shot at a planet for the fun of it." Politics aside, this is precocious, as I say. But not so much as Sol's reactions to the sadistic images he finds on the internet; the persistent thread of violence and age-inappropriate sexuality will disturb many readers.
Read to the end, and you will find that the damage to Sol's psyche is only an extreme form of an underlying disturbance expressed more subtly in the other characters, but going back seventy years -- the fault lines of the title. None of the others is quite so weird, and there are many beauties along the way, including some fabulous descriptions of music (Erra is a singer). But I think you are meant to understand that all the family problems -- their phobias, their paranoias, their battles over religion -- stem from that one terrible event in the past. Nancy Huston involves us in a fascinating saga told from an unusual perspective, but I am not sure that she succeeds in proving her central point. (4.5 stars)
This book opened my eyes to so much about life... especially one forgotten part of Nazi history. I told my mom and my sister, if you choose to read this book, then you have to PROMISE yourself you will finish it no matter how difficult the subject matter you have to visualize. It's well worth it. Even though the story takes place sort of backwards chronologically, all the main characters are well developed, and I completely understand how their surface traces of disturbing evil really are just a small clue to the underbelly of the deformed German/Nazi history.
I really liked this book. If I were to knock off a star... which I just can't b/c the writing is THAT good, it would be only because I struggled with the content of Sol's Internet fetish, and also because I wanted it to keep going. I virutally yelled at my when I 'turned' the page and nothing was left. (Well played Nancy Huston, well played.) Oh and also because I want to reread it, but I really need to get laundry done!
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