Dive Into Confidentul Envisioned By Hélène Grémillon Compiled As Brochure

دارم ساعتها گریه کنم. بعد ریویو بنویسم. کتاب بشدت کشش داشت انقدر که در چند ساعت تموم شد.
یک قسمتهاییش رو میشد حدس زد اما در هر قسمتی چیزی برای رودست زدن به خواننده داشت. I finished this one last night and I can't stop thinking about it, The story and the characters are still haunting me even though I closed the book, I think this is one of my new favorites, I wasnt at all

sure about The Confidant when I first picked it up, I was happy with the prospect of a story set in wartime France, but I was a little worried that the story was told through a series of anonymous letters in thes.
Wasnt that just a little bit contrived

Maybe, but the opening won me over,

I got a letter one day, a long letter that wasnt signed, This was quite an event because Ive never received much mail in my life, My letter box had never done more than inform me that the sea was warm or that the snow was good, so I didnt open it very often, Once a week, maybe twice in a gloomy week, when I hoped that s letter would suddenly change my life completely and utterly, like a telephone call can, or a trip on the métro, or closing my eyes and counting to ten before opening them again.


And then my mother died, And that was plenty, as far as changing my life went: youre mothers death, you cant get much better than that

Suddenly that premise made sense, A story that could only be told once certain of the protagonists were dead, I found myself liking Camille, She was bereaved, she was pregnant, and she was none to sure what she was going to do,

The letters told the story of a boy and a girl who had grown up in the same village, Louis and Annie. First they were friends and then they were sweethearts, They might have lived happily ever after,

But then Monsieur and Madame M settled in the village, Annie was a talented artist and Madame M noticed her, encouraged her, took her under her wing, They grew close. And when Annie discovered the source of Madame Ms sadness that she could not carry a child she offered to carry one for her,

It was an extraordinary offer, And it was accepted.

The relationship between Annie and Monsieur M, that was supposed to be dispassionate turned into a passionate love affair, Madame M saw that. She was jealous, she was angry, and she wanted revenge, Monsieur M was caught up in the war and the two women were left with the child, Both of them wanted to be her mother but only one of them could,

The story was melodramatic and not entirely believable, And yet it worked, because the emotions were so strong and because they rang so very true,

And because it was told so very cleverly, with Louis sending letters and pages from Annies journal, and with Camille reading and wondering what it all meant,

Was it a badly misjudged joke She worked in publishing could it be an extraordinary pitch for a novel Or was it real And if it was real what did that mean about her identity, about the mother she had lost

The first half of the book had me captivated.
I was first charmed and then gripped by the story, And I was asking the same questions that Camille was asking herself,

The story twisted and turned and I kept changing my mind, The tension grew. Such clever writing.

In time, of course, Camille that she was being told a true story, that she was being told for a reason, and she studied the letters for clues to what that reason might be, where she might find the sender.


She thought she had him pinned down, And then a package arrived, The journal of Madame M,

It told the same story from a different perspective, and with some telling differences, I wondered who if anyone was reliable and I really couldnt decide, But I appreciated that there was no black and white, only shades of grey, and that there would be no easy resolution for Camille,

I found a great deal to think about: friendship, love, passion, motherhood, jealousy, revenge, war, regret, consequences

The writing was uneven and there was always a hint of contrivance, but I believed in the characters and their relationships, and I thought the plotting was very well done.


The ending was very well judged,

And, though the story was flawed, I am still thinking about it
O aveam pe listă de ceva vreme, Apoi am cumpărato. Dar a rămas în bibliotecă, Aseară aveam chef să citesc ceva ficțiune ușor de citit, ceva care să mă relaxeze, Recunosc, nu mă așteptam să stau până lanoaptea ca să o termin, pentru că a fost imposibil de lăsat din mână, La fel ca un film la care te uiți cu sufletul la gură, I really liked this book and I was feeling as if it would be a solid fourstar novel, and then, . . wow! The very last paragraph came along and it earned that last star for an awesome conclusion, I was thinking that it was going to finish in the conventionally predictable manner but I was so wrong, I actually didn't see that coming, Sure, elements of the conclusion were not completely unexpected, but the very end was just brilliant,
I really liked the change in perspective among the characters, They were all so different, and I loved how they all revealed the various aspects of the story until it came together clearly, At times it was horrific and tragic, but ultimately somewhat uplifting in an strange kind of way, I ended up really liking the Louis character of course and hoping the rest of them could just be better people than they really were, Fortunately, this is fiction, but the story is compelling enough that it's easy to forget that, at least for a little while, فوووق العاده جذاب و پرکشش بودددد!
از صبح که شروعش کردم نتونستم پایینش بذارم D:
داستان دو زن. داستانی پر از احساسات. عشق خیانت نفرت حسادت.
خیلی عالی بود و احساس می کنم که حتما باز هم خواهم خواندش :
فقط یک سوال. اصلا در باورم نمیتونم بگنجونم که "لازم نیست بگویی دوستت دارم" حدود دوازده هزار و همراز سه هزار ریت داره :
و اون ۴. ۹ گرفته و همراز ۳. ۶۹ !!
چراااا غافلگیر کننده از اول تا آخرین خط صفحه ی آخر خانم هلن گرمیون در کتاب همراز با مهارت تمام داستانی خلق کرده پرکشش و سرشار از تعلیق و هیجان. او از ماجراهایی روزمره و بی اهمیت کتابی آفریده که روابط پیچیده میان انسانها را نشان می دهد.
قهرمانان داستان او سه زن از طبقات مختلف جامعه هستند که همگی با هم در زایش وداشتن نگاهی مادرانه به فرزند خود اشتراک دارند. در حقیقت حس مادری آنان و جنگ و جدال آنها به گونه ایست که جنگ جهانی دوم و اشغال پاریس در مرحله ای پایینتر ازدرگیری میان آنها قرار می گیرد.
شاید بازنده این درگیری راوی داستان باشد او با شروع ماجرا نامه هایی را که فرستنده آن مشخص نیست را با خواننده کتاب به اشتراک می گذارد نامه هایی که در ابتدا همانند داستانی بدون ربط به روای ماجرا به نظر می رسد کم کم به گونه ای زندگی و سرنوشت او را مشخص می کند.
دنیای خانم گرمیون را زنانی جاه طلب خائن و نسبتا شرور به همراه مردانی سست اراده تشکیل داده اند همزمان که فرانسه شکست خورده گویی مردمان هم به گونه ای دچار فروپاشی و زوال اخلاقی شده اند.
نویسنده با چرخش های مدام هر مرتبه سوال جدیدی طرح می کند او هر بار ذهن خواننده را نسبت به شخصیتهای داستان عوض کرده و او را نسبت به آنان به شدت بی اعتماد و بدگمان می کند.
هنر خانم گرمیون خلق داستانی جذاب و پرکشش بوده او مستقیم به سراغ اصل مطلب رفته و از افزودن داستان هایی زائد و اضافه به منظور جذاب کردن داستان خودداری کرده است او از رویدادهایی روزمره و نسبتا عادی داستانی روان و شیوا ساخته است اما از جهتی دیگر شیوه نگارش او و ایجاد تعلیق بیش از اندازه پس از مدتی برای خواننده دیگر کاملا معمولی و شاید هم تبدیل به امری پیش پا افتاده شده باشد و خواننده ممکن است با وجود لذت بردن از کتاب همراز آنرا تنها اثری سرگرم کننده و نه چندان عمیق بداند. فوق العاده بود!
نویسنده ماهرانه وقایع رو جوری کنار هم چیده که امکان نداره هیچ بخشی ازش حس ملال و خستگی از خوندن دست بده.
ریتم داستان عالی بود و نویسنده حتی تا آخرین صفحه هم دست از غافلگیر کردن خواننده دست برنمیداره. .