Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Diagram Of Thin Stools

OPEN ALL NIGHT-David Trueba

"The only place open is the house all night, "says Ambrose Bierce. And around the house turning the turbulent life of the family Belitre. Grandfather, grandmother, father, mother and six children between nine and twenty-eight years, over a hot English summer, moving house of a small apartment in a suburban two-storey building with attic, garden and cherry, in the heart of Madrid eighties, the cradle of work stress, the stunning night. And around the house, always in front of the gaping need of comfort to applications, to the stumbles of the time, Belitre grow and grow old, die and have fun, they lie, they question and respond, in a mixture of tenderness and emotion, and great laughter. "

book that my Mom! Discovered by chance aNobii browsing and reading all in one breath from yesterday afternoon until 18 at night. It was impossible to stop. It was impossible to think of waiting a day to continue and finish the story of this very special family, who struggle every day to seem "normal."
Belitre The family is a typical family: grandfather Abelard poet who composed verses and converses regularly with God, and her grandmother Alma, intellectual, living in bed and decided that because it talks about her past love with English intellectuals, both parents in his fifties who are looking how they can continue to send the family to raise six children, each with its problems more or less serious (From small Matías, suffering from a terrible syndrome that leads him to identify with the positions of command, Nacho, tireless heartthrob, to Basil, so bad that his only dream is to become invisible). To disrupt their lives will be two additions: that of Sara, the new "caretaker" of the grandmother, who will lose his head all the males of the family, upsetting balance and giving birth to jealousy and rebellion, and the follower of the psychologist Freud, taken to cure the problem of ugliness of Basil, which will be established in a tent in the garden and will be converted soon Belitre adviser to the whole family.
In the end everything will return to its place, if a place has it ever had. Return the balance, but without doing good or for too pleased.

An incredible book that makes you laugh and touch that makes us reflect on certain aspects of the life of every person tells so direct but sometimes ironic: the midlife crisis of cinquatenni, the sense of inadequacy to the world around us, the disease and its impact on the family, the difficulty of falling in love or fear to do so.
many characters with many different characteristics, which are found all together in the one place that is open all night home.

be read completely!

Note translation: too many notes, sometimes redundant (but perhaps because I have some knowledge of the history of English literature and culture) and some grammatical problem.

"Instead of selling insurance policies he would like to murder-suicides and emergency exits from this world-idiot instead of scaffolding to support a life of staggering. "

"The summer storms if they do not waits for no one. Just like love, burst suddenly, they surprise you in the wrong place at the wrong time, they force you to run, jump, run, run for cover. And then, suddenly, here comes the sun, which brings to ears a rainbow. "



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