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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post).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 without comfort or relief. 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 stark and devastating decline.

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Author : Julie Otsuka
★★★★☆ 4 from 5 stars (1364 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 0593466624
File size: 14 MB

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I heard this book recommended but didn’t know much about it before I started reading. The writing is lovely, different, interesting. The whole thing is thought-provoking, and it’s increasingly disturbing to read such a realistic-seeming account of the way it can all go wrong. It’s a little too real, accurate, and well-crafted for comfort. (Clearly the author’s style of writing in lists has gotten to me too.) The Swimmers: A novel eBook Kindle ePUB pdf epub This is a beautifully written story of a woman and her daughter. It is also a very sad story, but with that said, it is also filled with love. The writing style is unique and has a cadence that is unique to each stage of the story. So many of us as we age will face dementia in its many forms. This book brings home the reality of these diseases, the sadness of losing a loved one long before the age physically gone. PDF The Swimmers: A novel ebook link This was an interesting book about the connections we make with strangers, essentially. The book takes turn midway through and deals with the deeper questions of life and death, and the importance of living your life to the fullest while you can. ePUB The Swimmers: A novel link per il download It's difficult to review a book as heartfelt and true as The Swimmers. Julie Otsuka has written a masterpiece that will be with me forever,The novel is about Alice, a woman with Pick's disease, a type of dementia. The narrative follows the relationship between Alice and her daughter as Alice's disease progresses. The daughter is a writer and the novel has some of the aspects of the best memoirs.This short novel starts with a chapter about swimmers in an underground pool, probably a YMCA. Each swimmer obeys the pool's unspoken rules and keeps to the same lane every day. They are happy to be away from the hustle and bustle of 'the'outside'' because in the pool everything is quiet and peaceful, perfect for all the swimmers. One day, however, a crack appears at the bottom of the pool and this is horribly upsetting to the swimmers. What can it be and what caused it? As the book progresses, I found it a clear metaphor for the beginning of Alice's demise, the crack in her mind so to speak.The next chapter, Diem Perdidi, is a short story, one I believe that Ms. Otsuka has previously published. It is about the progression of her mother's dementia as her daughter looks on. Diem Perdidi, translatesd something like 'the lost day', is beautifully rendered as is the profound sense of loss it conveys.Ultimately, Alice is sent to reside in a long-term care facility that is regimented, cold, and like many medical facilities, caring more about the profit than the patient.I loved the parts of the book that explored the daughter's relationship with Alice, especially her distance from her mother since leaving home for college. Alice sounds like a powerhouse in her youth but it is easy to see how fractious a mother/daughter relationship might have been.Ms. Otsuka writes like no other author. She is unique in her style which I found mesmerizing and lyrical. The book never slows down. It rides, like the wind, on the beauty of the author's words. Her style reminded me of music, with its repetitions and short rifs. The composers Erik Satie and Philip Glass come to mind. This will be one of my top 10 books of 2022 and one of my favorite novels of all time. Download (PDF) The Swimmers: A novel Certainly well written, and swimmers will really enjoy the keen observations in the first half of the book. Skip through the 500 repetitious sentences beginning with "She remembers...", which is why I almost gave it a 3.