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The Fire Starters (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**

'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES

'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY

'Captivating, intelligent and courageous' IRISH TIMES

'Spectacular. At once grittily real, wildly magical and insanely alluring - a siren-song of a novel.' DONAL RYAN

'Jan Carson seems to have invented a new Belfast in this gripping, surprising, exhilarating novel.' RODDY DOYLE

'Blew me away with its power, anger and wit.' JOSEPH O'CONNOR

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.

Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.

The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will these two fathers choose to protect?

Dark, propulsive and thrillingly original, this tale of fierce familial love and sacrifice fizzes with magic and wonder.

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Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it. -- Lisa McInerney

Spectacular . . . Dark, beautiful, at once grittily real and wildly magical. Insanely alluring. -- Donal Ryan

A big and rambunctious novel that casts a cold satirical eye on themes such as language, culture, identity, sectarianism, and the terrifying proximity of the past ― Sunday Times, 50 Greatest Irish Novels of the 21st Century

Blew me away with its power, anger and wit. ― Joseph O'Connor, Books of the Year

Shimmering with wit, simmering with an incandescent rage, shot through with a seam of wild magic, The Fire Starters is a powerful, disturbing portrait of East Belfast and its people and its hope for the future. I won’t be the only reader to proclaim that, in the best way possible, Jan Carson is on fire. ― Lucy Caldwell

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**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07K17Z3V1
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Transworld Digital (4 aprile 2019)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1576 KB
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 295 pagine
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Debra-Kaye J.
5,0 su 5 stelle Getting what I asked for and completely enjoying it.
Recensito in Canada il 1 maggio 2020
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Helped understand the history.
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Stanislav
4,0 su 5 stelle Novel about toxic masculinity half-disguised under a mix of gothic fiction and magical realism.
Recensito in Germania il 1 settembre 2020
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A fairly solid novel, a bit clumsy at the beginning, but it finds its footing towards the end. I think it had the potential to be great, but it got somewhat lost under the ambition to be great. This is a book about toxic masculinity half-disguised under a mix of gothic fiction and magical realism. I found the choice of the narrators quite peculiar, it's definitely up for a discussion, which one do we believe more - an insane man telling his own story or a violent man whose story we are being told.
P.S. The five chapters about Unfortunate Children felt rather like an afterthought. They either should have started from the very beginning, spread evenly through the book till the very end, ending with Sophie, or should have been redacted completely.
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James Tormey
5,0 su 5 stelle The best book I've read so far this year
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 maggio 2020
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The name of this book summons a picture of Keith Flint (R.I.P) banging is head and shouting “I’m the Fire Starter”. If you didn’t or don’t know who he is, I’m sure the references to the song within the book will have you googling it anyway.

The Fire Starters was a bit of a slow burner (pun intended) for me to begin with. The author writes beautifully and I was swept up immediately by the talk of The Tall Fires and The Twelfth. While I am Irish, I have never been to Belfast, so it was interesting to see an author’s perspective of the area in and around this time. While Jonathan and Sammy are name-checked above there is certainly a third protagonist in this book and that is Belfast itself. The author brings it to life brilliantly in these pages.

It is hard for me to describe what genre this book is without giving too much away. There are certainly magical elements. Jonathan and his daughter play a big role in the book as he struggles to make a decision. He thinks that she may be a siren and wants to protect people from her. (This is not a spoiler, it’s in the books opening). While Sammy thinks that his past has affected who his son has become. Both men need to decide who to protect – their children, or everybody else.While the fantasy element is here I would not consider this a fantasy book. Granted, there are sections, but overall I think I would class this as contemporary fiction. I am however very much open to correction.

I enjoyed reading the opening sections of the book and savoring them. I felt that this was a book to be taken slowly. However, a couple of chapters later things started to ramp up a bit. I was still savoring every page but I just couldn’t pull myself away from the pages. I read the second half of the book in a day, and when I was finished I was sure I had read my favourite book of the year so far. I actually sighed in disappointment that I was done. I really wanted it to continue.

Highly recommended.
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Tom in London
4,0 su 5 stelle Riverrun
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 settembre 2021
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One way of getting away from East Belfast is to escape into your imagination. If you have an easy ability to write and it all comes flowing out, with what's called a "rapier wit" in the form of scathing remarks about the surrounding environment and what goes on in it (lying politicians, takeaways) then you have the equipment to construct a large novel about childbirth and the love of a child, but converted into something horrific that threatens to end in an unthinkably monstrous act. Spoiler alert: it doesn't happen so you're all right letting yourself go with the flow. Flow is really what I appreciated most about Jan Carson's prose. She has the gift of writing beautifully without being selfconciously trying to and despite her avowed admiration for magical realist writers like Salman Rushdie, she has none of their look-at-how-clever-I-am pretentiousness. When I said "environment" I meant the East Belfast that surrounds the two main characters, both of them at the end of their tethers and heading for catastrophe, each in his own way because yes, they're both men and sympathetically dealt with as victims - victims of the hands they have been dealt. Sammy is a violent extreme Protestant who spent his earlier years beating people up and torturing them for not being Protestants. The other fellow is a medic, a General Practitioner who happens to be Sammy's GP. The climax of the book, I think, is where Sammy's inner drama, as he strives to save his son from a life of misdeeds, comes to a crisis point and he goes to see the GP for what the GP thinks is going to be just another tedious consulation but turns out to be a confrontation man to man. In the meantime the GP is mothering (rather than fathering) a baby that was born in a sort of hallucinatory maelstrom and has no mother. But in a way this is all neither here nor there. It's the novel itself as it bowls along, with brilliantly funny asides of sarcastic Belfast wit, such as the prospect of going out to beat people up as a way of defending your culture. But in the end I don't know if there's a big idea in this book, a big human emotion. If there is, it didn't emerge for me. But a most enjoyable and entertaining read.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Utterly incredible
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 16 maggio 2020
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Everything in this book felt real. I devoured it in a single day, and it quenched the ache that is always in me about leaving Belfast, for the duration of the novel it brought me home and I will be indebted to Jan Carson forever, for that. Beyond the tangible Belfast within its pages, the story is breathtaking and unique. Literally, I didn't breathe for the whole of the last two chapters I was so wrapped up in seeing 18th conclusion. Read this book of you're from Belfast, as an antidote to all the stale Troubles dual-protagonist novels, as an antidote to paint by numbers Provos and their legacies. Read this for a burst of home in Technicolor. And if you're not from Belfast, sure read it anyway.
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