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Inland author Téa Obreht review Ç 3 Téa Obreht ì 3 summary review Inland author Téa Obreht The New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with a stunning tale of perseverance an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape of magic and myth In the lawless drought ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893 two extraordinary lives collide Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life her husband who has gone in search of water fo NOW AVAILABLE 45 StarsIt s been around eight years since I read T a Obreht s debut novel The Tiger s Wife but the fact that I loved the beautiful writing and the story had been enough incentive for me to reuest this second novel Inland I m so glad that I didThis story has a duel narrative which kept me on my toes and wanders over time over centuries and around the world in one of the narratives Over the course of a day in another narrative traveling through time using memories revisited times and places loves and losses over a lifetime Through all of this Obreht weaves this story of the early days of the Arizona Territory 1893 with an enchanting sprinkling of magical realism as well as a spiritual connection both of these two narrators have conversations with and connections to the dead This isn t a carefree cheerful read yet it doesn t dwell in the harshness of these lives There is much pondering and wonderment of their surroundings as bleak as they are and through these we learn their stories Obreht manages to skillfully weave into this story the historical experimentation of the United States Camel Corps using camels as pack animals in the Southwest during the mid 19th century development of the country The US Army eventually decided to abandon this project despite the camels stamina This added another layer to the story but what I loved most about this was the vivid portrayal of the era the landscape and the memories of these two people their stories as well as their conversations with those who haunt their days and nights If there were brief moments while reading this where it felt as though I had wandered in the desert too long the breathtaking ending is one that will remain etched in my mind Pub Date 13 Aug 2019Many thanks for the ARC provided by to Random House Publishing Group Random House Homewrecker returns with a stunning tale of perseverance an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape of magic and myth In the lawless drought Make your own model forts & castles ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893 two extraordinary lives collide Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the Tremors of Fury (The Days of Ash and Fury return of the men in her life her husband who has gone in search of water fo NOW AVAILABLE 45 StarsIt s been around eight years since I How Julian and Nigel Turned Each Other Gay (Inadvertently), or So They Both Claim read T a Obreht s debut novel The Tiger s Wife but the fact that I loved the beautiful writing and the story had been enough incentive for me to The Mage (Foxcraft, Book 3) reuest this second novel Inland I m so glad that I didThis story has a duel narrative which kept me on my toes and wanders over time over centuries and around the world in one of the narratives Over the course of a day in another narrative traveling through time using memories Illustrated Workbook for Self-Therapy for Your Inner Critic revisited times and places loves and losses over a lifetime Through all of this Obreht weaves this story of the early days of the Arizona Territory 1893 with an enchanting sprinkling of magical Earthfall (Homecoming, realism as well as a spiritual connection both of these two narrators have conversations with and connections to the dead This isn t a carefree cheerful A Daddy for Christmas read yet it doesn t dwell in the harshness of these lives There is much pondering and wonderment of their surroundings as bleak as they are and through these we learn their stories Obreht manages to skillfully weave into this story the historical experimentation of the United States Camel Corps using camels as pack animals in the Southwest during the mid 19th century development of the country The US Army eventually decided to abandon this project despite the camels stamina This added another layer to the story but what I loved most about this was the vivid portrayal of the era the landscape and the memories of these two people their stories as well as their conversations with those who haunt their days and nights If there were brief moments while Banned in Britain reading this where it felt as though I had wandered in the desert too long the breathtaking ending is one that will Hour of the Beast remain etched in my mind Pub Date 13 Aug 2019Many thanks for the ARC provided by to Random House Publishing Group Random House
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Inland author Téa Obreht review Ç 3 Téa Obreht ì 3 summary review Inland author Téa Obreht R the parched household and her elder sons who have vanished after an explosive argument Nora is biding her time with her youngest son who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their homeLurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts He sees lost souls who want something from him and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires I feel sorry for the next book I pick up When I love a read as much as Inland the subseuent story or two usually pales unfairly in the afterglow This is a work of historical fiction a panoramic western in the great tradition of Cather McCarthy and Portis but author T a Obreht is too skilled a writer to be confined by expectations and conventions of genre She writes with such urgency and empathy with wonder for her story and compassion for her characters that this reader was simply swept away in the moment carried on the current of a brilliant narrative through a parched land where drops of water are as precious as flakes of gold I think of recent historical fiction by the outstanding William Kent Kruger and Mary Doria Russell and those novels now seem plodding and clunky compared to the ethereal grace of Obrecht s InlandTwo stories unfold one expanding over four decades the other in a span of hours until they come together in the novel s final gutting pages that left me sobbing the smallest hours of the morning Lurie an immigrant and wanted man hustles west from an Eastern seaport where he landed from Bosnia as a boy He attaches himself to bands of itinerants and outlaws trying to outrun his own WANTED poster He finds himself astride a camel imported as pack animals by the Army which supposed the beasts well suited to the desert west of the Arizona Territory His compatriots hail from Greece Turkey and the ancient cultures of the Levant places we don t typically associate with the settlement of the American West Lurie spins out his long tale to his beloved companion the stalwart camel Burke Her throat aching with thirst Nora Lark homesteads with her husband Emmett and three sons in a little mining district between Phoenix and Flagstaff Emmett is three days late returning with their water supply and the morning after a heated argument with Nora the two older Lark sons disappear in search of their father Nora is left on the forlorn property with fragile seven year old Toby stroke addled Grandma and her husband s scatterbrained young cousin Josie who claims to commune with the spirit world Nora maintains a heartrending patter with her daughter Evelyn who died of heatstroke as an infant but in conversation is a sophisticated and articulate foil to the cruel unforgiving land that her family survives in Nora carries a slow burning torch for Sheriff Harlan Bell with whom she has a shadowy unreuited love that is full of longing and empathy Their few scenes together are full of aching desire their loneliness epitomizing the beautiful terrible landscape that shifts between silence and violence in a heartbeatObreht creates a breathless tension as Lurie s and Nora s stories track toward collision The desiccated land is haunted with ghosts menaced by drought and starvation riders appearing on the horizon are unknown as friend or foe until they reach shotgun distance And yet the cast of characters retains an enchanting humanity with Nora tough broken resolute and loving the greatest among them It s been eight years since T a Obreht s celebrated debut The Tiger s Wife which I lauded for its beautiful prose but lamented the lack of connection to character and the overwrought fabulism Inland is the work of an author deeply in touch with her rich cast allowing them agency in this exuisitely rendered story I didn t expect to love Inland as much as I did given the low rating here I m so very glad I ignored the naysayers to discover this unusual luminous novelAlso I love camels Other Days, Other Eyes reprieve from their longing in an unexpected Deception Island relationship that inspires I feel sorry for the next book I pick up When I love a The Family read as much as Inland the subseuent story or two usually pales unfairly in the afterglow This is a work of historical fiction a panoramic western in the great tradition of Cather McCarthy and Portis but author T a Obreht is too skilled a writer to be confined by expectations and conventions of genre She writes with such urgency and empathy with wonder for her story and compassion for her characters that this The First Partition of Poland reader was simply swept away in the moment carried on the current of a brilliant narrative through a parched land where drops of water are as precious as flakes of gold I think of The Hero of Varay recent historical fiction by the outstanding William Kent Kruger and Mary Doria Russell and those novels now seem plodding and clunky compared to the ethereal grace of Obrecht s InlandTwo stories unfold one expanding over four decades the other in a span of hours until they come together in the novel s final gutting pages that left me sobbing the smallest hours of the morning Lurie an immigrant and wanted man hustles west from an Eastern seaport where he landed from Bosnia as a boy He attaches himself to bands of itinerants and outlaws trying to outrun his own WANTED poster He finds himself astride a camel imported as pack animals by the Army which supposed the beasts well suited to the desert west of the Arizona Territory His compatriots hail from Greece Turkey and the ancient cultures of the Levant places we don t typically associate with the settlement of the American West Lurie spins out his long tale to his beloved companion the stalwart camel Burke Her throat aching with thirst Nora Lark homesteads with her husband Emmett and three sons in a little mining district between Phoenix and Flagstaff Emmett is three days late 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Inland author Téa Obreht review Ç 3 Téa Obreht ì 3 summary review Inland author Téa Obreht A momentous expedition across the West The way in which Nora's and Lurie's stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novelMythical lyrical and sweeping in scope Inland is grounded in true but little known history It showcases all of Téa Obreht's talents as a writer as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West making them entirely and unforgettably her own DNF at 30% It may be my reading mood but I ve picked this up several times and I am not connecting with the story nor the characters The story was just striking me as disjointed