Lucca
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1841953970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-30 |
| Language | : | Danish |
DESCRIPTION:
Lucca Montale, a 32-year-old Danish actress, is rushed into hospital after a motor accident. She has rushed into dramatic, desperate acts. She is severely injured after a head-on collision with a lorry. Grondahl masterfully deploys a dual narrative, switching with astounding insight between the stories that the two protagonists relate to each other.. Robert and Lucca are both suffering the after-effects of love. He has sought refuge in controlled resignation since his divorce. Robert, the doctor responsible for treating her, is obliged to break the news that she may never see again
Holly Korda said The Inner Life of Human Relationships. Can we ever really know another person? What is human connection--and disconnection--all about?Danish author Jens Christian Grøndahl explores basic--and complex--questions of human relationship in this carefully detailed story of Lucca, a young actress who is blinded in a head-on collision, and Robert, the physician. Exquisite poetry After I finished this book I though that for a long time I could never read another book by any other author - I thought no other book could be so beautifully written - exquisite detail and character description. A melancholy searching beautiful soul! I read the first book which was translated and liked that very much as w. Sarah Hill said A gloomy look at life. Grondahl may be famous in Europe, but there must be something in his writing that just doesn't translate well into English. Lucca is the protagonist who we are supposed to like: she is beautiful, talented, and tragic--or at least that's what I think Grondahl wanted his readers to feel. However, Lucca comes off as more of a
Lucca Montale, an actress with a young son and a string of unhappy affairs behind her, rushes out of her house in the Danish countryside and drives head-on into a truck after her playwright husband, Andreas, tells her that he wants a divorce. Lucca's experiences-glamorous trysts with a famous director, an actor and all sorts of men around Europe-are very different from Robert's lonely domesticity and long hours spent listening to classical music, but their stories are treated with equally sensuous attentio