Biten

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John Banville: Biten (Vietnamese language, 2007, NXB Văn học, Nhã Nam)

326 pages

Vietnamese language

Published Nov. 10, 2007 by NXB Văn học, Nhã Nam.

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There, he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death.

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Every book doesn't impress on the same place although we take it for granted that they impress upon our feelings. The impression of a book on me is often physical. Some books make my brain fuzzy, some are like deep wounds in my groin, and some are like empty little pockets in my chest. The Sea took my body and broke every bone of it, pulled every muscle.

Since it is a novel, the first question you may ask is, "What is the story?" Well, it doesn't matter. Stories happen all the time and every story is as old as time. Who, and most importantly, how the story is being told is what modern literature is concerned about. When Max, the story-teller here, a self-made man, often vain, mostly sensitive, an intellectual born and brought up in the lower segments of the society tells his story candidly, yet always trying …

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Subjects

  • Authors -- Fiction.
  • Widowers -- Fiction.
  • Seaside resorts -- Fiction.
  • Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
  • Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
  • Autobiographical memory -- Fiction.
  • England -- Fiction.