Ben reseñó The Ocean at the End of the Lane de Neil Gaiman
Nice visuals, thin plot
3 estrellas
Beautifully written and descriptive farm setting.
Publicado el 7 de abril de 2013 por Roca Editorial.
El océano al final del camino
por Neil Gaiman
4 estrellas
(2 reseñas)
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly …
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
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5 estrellas
Hacía mucho que no leía una novela de un tirón en un par de días. La impotencia de la niñez frente al mundo adulto intransigente. El horror de la voracidad de los pájaros del hambre (de niña no hubiera podido dormir por noches y noches por su culpa). Amé a las mujeres Hempstock con su magia protectora y amorosa, incondicionales para siempre. La melancolía que rodea la historia me abrumó. Y el final con la incertidumbre como bandera, flameando sobre un océano de recuerdos difusos, incompletos y cambiantes sobre la infancia y la vida, se siente como el broche de oro de una historia bien contada que ya quiero leer de nuevo desde el principio.