Life After Life af Kate Atkinson (Bog)

Forfatter: Kate Atkinson
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 628
Forlag: Random House
Udgivelsesår: 2014
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
Titel: Life After Life

Sammendrag: Romanen følger Ursula Todd, der genfødes hver gang hun dør, og får uendeligt mange chancer for at leve sit liv på ny. Små variationer i hændelser og valg sender hende ind i forskellige versioner af 1900‑tallets Europa, fra hjemmeliv i England til bombningerne under Anden Verdenskrig. Gennem Ursulas gentagne liv undersøger Kate Atkinson, om et menneske kan ændre sin egen og verdens skæbne, eller om katastrofer og krig er uundgåelige. Romanen kombinerer familieportræt, historisk skildring og et legende tidsrejse-/multivers‑greb, hvor samme karakterer dukker op i nye konstellationer, og læseren langsomt forstår, hvordan Ursulas valg former hendes livs mange mulige forløb.
Type: Paperback