The swimmers

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Otsuka, Julie

Verfasser Angabe:
Julie Otsuka

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• USA
• Tochter
• Schwimmen
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Demenz
• Mutter

Verlag:
Alfred A. Knopf

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2022

Umfang:
175 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-593-32133-1

Inhalt:
The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps, she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her devastating decline.

The Swimmers is a searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters and the sorrows of implacable loss - a spellbinding, unforgettable work from a modern master.

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