Everything I Never Told You
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere.
"A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." -O, the Oprah Magazine
"Explosive...Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family."...
"A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." -O, the Oprah Magazine
"Explosive...Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family."...
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The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere. "A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense." -O, the Oprah Magazine
"Explosive...Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family." -Entertainment Weekly
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.
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***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof***Copyright © 2014 Celeste Ng
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Lydia is dead. But they don t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast. As always, next to her cereal bowl, her mother has placed a sharpened pencil and Lydia s physics homework, six problems flagged with small ticks. Driving to work, Lydia s father nudges the dial toward WXKP, Northwest Ohio s Best News Source, vexed by the crackles of static. On the stairs, Lydia s brother yawns, still twined in the tail end of his dream. And in her chair in the corner of the kitchen, Lydia s sister hunches moon-eyed over her cornflakes, sucking them to pieces one by one, waiting for Lydia to appear. It s she who says, at last, Lydia s taking a long time today.
Upstairs, Marilyn opens her daughter s door and sees the bed unslept in: neat hospital corners still pleated beneath the comforter, pillow still fluffed and convex. Nothing seems out of place. Mustard-colored corduroys tangled on the floor, a single rainbow-striped sock. A row of science fair ribbons on the wall, a postcard of Einstein. Lydia s duffel bag crumpled on the floor of the closet. Lydia s green bookbag slouched against her desk. Lydia s bottle of Baby Soft atop the dresser, a sweet, powdery, loved-baby scent still in the air. But no Lydia.
Marilyn closes her eyes. Maybe, when she opens them, Lydia will be there, covers pulled over her head as usual, wisps of hair trailing from beneath. A grumpy lump bundled under the bedspread that she d somehow missed before. I was in the bathroom, Mom. I went downstairs for some water. I was lying right here all the time. Of course, when she looks, nothing has changed. The closed curtains glow like a blank television screen.
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Downstairs, she stops in the doorway of the kitchen, a hand on each side of the frame. Her silence says everything. I ll check outside, she says at last. Maybe for some reason She keeps her gaze trained on the floor as she heads for the front door, as if Lydia s footprints might be crushed into the hall runner.
Nath says to Hannah, She was in her room last night. I heard her radio playing. At eleven thirty. He stops, remembering that he had not said goodnight.
Can you be kidnapped if you re sixteen? Hannah asks. Nath prods at his bowl with a spoon. Cornflakes wilt and sink into clouded milk.
Their mother steps back into the kitchen, and for one glorious fraction of a second Nath sighs with relief: there she is, Lydia, safe and sound. It happens sometimes their faces are so alike you d see one in the corner of your eye and mistake her for the other: the same elfish chin and high cheekbones and left-cheek dimple, the same thin-shouldered build. Only the hair color is different, Lydia s ink-black instead of their mother s honey-blond. He and Hannah take after their father once a woman stopped the two of them in the grocery store and asked, Chinese? and when they said yes, not wanting to get into halves and wholes, she d nodded sagely. I knew it, she said. By the eyes. She d tugged the corner of each eye outward with a fingertip. But Lydia, defying genetics, somehow has her mother s blue eyes, and they know this is one more reason she is their mother s favorite. And their father s, too.
Then Lydia raises one hand to her brow and becomes his mother again.
The car s still here, she says, but Nath had known it would be. Lydia can t drive; she doesn t even have a learner s permit yet. Last week she d surprised them all by failing the exam, and their fa
Downstairs, she stops in the doorway of the kitchen, a hand on each side of the frame. Her silence says everything. I ll check outside, she says at last. Maybe for some reason She keeps her gaze trained on the floor as she heads for the front door, as if Lydia s footprints might be crushed into the hall runner.
Nath says to Hannah, She was in her room last night. I heard her radio playing. At eleven thirty. He stops, remembering that he had not said goodnight.
Can you be kidnapped if you re sixteen? Hannah asks. Nath prods at his bowl with a spoon. Cornflakes wilt and sink into clouded milk.
Their mother steps back into the kitchen, and for one glorious fraction of a second Nath sighs with relief: there she is, Lydia, safe and sound. It happens sometimes their faces are so alike you d see one in the corner of your eye and mistake her for the other: the same elfish chin and high cheekbones and left-cheek dimple, the same thin-shouldered build. Only the hair color is different, Lydia s ink-black instead of their mother s honey-blond. He and Hannah take after their father once a woman stopped the two of them in the grocery store and asked, Chinese? and when they said yes, not wanting to get into halves and wholes, she d nodded sagely. I knew it, she said. By the eyes. She d tugged the corner of each eye outward with a fingertip. But Lydia, defying genetics, somehow has her mother s blue eyes, and they know this is one more reason she is their mother s favorite. And their father s, too.
Then Lydia raises one hand to her brow and becomes his mother again.
The car s still here, she says, but Nath had known it would be. Lydia can t drive; she doesn t even have a learner s permit yet. Last week she d surprised them all by failing the exam, and their fa
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Celeste Ng
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- Autor: Celeste Ng
- 2015, 336 Seiten, Masse: 13,2 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0143127551
- ISBN-13: 9780143127550
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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If we know this story, we haven t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now . . . Ng has set two tasks in this novel s doubled heart to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won t share . . . What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind a burden you do not always survive. Alexander Chee, bestselling author of Edinburgh and The Queen of the NightBoth a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family, Ng s explosive debut chronicles the plight of Marilyn and James Lee after their favored daughter is found dead in a lake. Entertainment Weekly
Excellent . . . an accomplished debut . . . heart-wrenching . . . Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel. Everything I Never Told You is an engaging work that casts a powerful light on the secrets that have kept an American family together and that finally end up tearing it apart. Los Angeles Times
Tender and merciless all at once . . . Vital in all the essential ways. Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, A National Book Award winner
Wonderfully moving . . . Emotionally precise . . . A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief . . . [This book] will resonate with anyone who has ever had a family drama. Boston Globe
A powerhouse of a debut novel, a literary mystery crafted out of shimmering prose and precise, painful observation about racial barriers, the burden of familial expectations, and the basic human thirst for belonging . . . Ng s novel grips readers from page one with the hope of unraveling the
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mystery behind Lydia s death and boy does it deliver, on every front. Huffington Post
A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders and in the heads of the next . . . Ng deftly and convincingly illustrates the degree to which some miscommunications can never quite be rectified. San Francisco Chronicle
Cleverly crafted, emotionally perceptive . . . Ng sensitively dramatizes issues of gender and race that lie at the heart of the story . . . Ng s themes of assimilation are themselves deftly interlaced into a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense. O, The Oprah Magazine
Ng moves gracefully back and forth in time, into the aftermath of the tragedy as well as the distant past, and into the consciousness of each member of the family, creating a series of mysteries and revelations that lead back to the original question: what happened to Lydia? . . . Ng is masterful in her use of the omniscient narrator, achieving both a historical distance and visceral intimacy with each character s struggles and failures . . . On the surface, Ng s storylines are nothing new. There is a mysterious death, a family pulled apart by misunderstanding and grief, a struggle to fit into the norms of society, yet in the weaving of these threads she creates a work of ambitious complexity. In the end, this novel movingly portrays the burden of difference at a time when difference had no cultural value . . . Compelling. Los Angeles Review of Books
The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee s tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mind The Lovely Bones. Marie Claire
The first chapter of Celeste Ng s debut novel is difficult the oldest daughter in a family is dead but what follows is a brilliantly written, surprisingly uplifting exploration of striving in the face of alienation and of the secrets we keep from others. This could be my favorite novel of the year. Chris Schluep, Parade
The emotional core of Celeste Ng s debut is what sets it apart. The different ways in which the Lee family handles Lydia s death create internal friction, and most impressive is the way Ng handles racial politics. With a deft hand, she loads and unpacks the implications of being the only Chinese American family in a small town in Ohio. Kevin Nguyen, Grantland
Beautiful and poignant . . . deftly drawn . . . . It s hard to believe that this is a debut novel for Celeste Ng. She tackles the themes of family dynamics, gender and racial stereotyping, and the weight of expectations, all with insight made more powerful through understatement. She has an exact, sophisticated touch with her prose. The sentences are straightforward. She evokes emotions through devastatingly detailed observations. Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Perceptive . . . a skillful and moving portrayal of a family in pain . . . It is to Ng s credit that it is sometimes difficult for the reader to keep going; the pain and unhappiness is palpable. But it is true to the Lees, and Ng tells all. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Impressive . . . In its evocation of a time and place and society largely gone but hardly forgotten, Everything I Never Told You tells much that today s reader should learn, ponder and appreciate. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A subtle meditation on gender, race and the weight of one generation s unfulfilled ambitions upon the shoulders and in the heads of the next . . . Ng deftly and convincingly illustrates the degree to which some miscommunications can never quite be rectified. San Francisco Chronicle
Cleverly crafted, emotionally perceptive . . . Ng sensitively dramatizes issues of gender and race that lie at the heart of the story . . . Ng s themes of assimilation are themselves deftly interlaced into a taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense. O, The Oprah Magazine
Ng moves gracefully back and forth in time, into the aftermath of the tragedy as well as the distant past, and into the consciousness of each member of the family, creating a series of mysteries and revelations that lead back to the original question: what happened to Lydia? . . . Ng is masterful in her use of the omniscient narrator, achieving both a historical distance and visceral intimacy with each character s struggles and failures . . . On the surface, Ng s storylines are nothing new. There is a mysterious death, a family pulled apart by misunderstanding and grief, a struggle to fit into the norms of society, yet in the weaving of these threads she creates a work of ambitious complexity. In the end, this novel movingly portrays the burden of difference at a time when difference had no cultural value . . . Compelling. Los Angeles Review of Books
The mysterious circumstances of 16-year-old Lydia Lee s tragic death have her loved ones wondering how, exactly, she spent her free time. This ghostly debut novel calls to mind The Lovely Bones. Marie Claire
The first chapter of Celeste Ng s debut novel is difficult the oldest daughter in a family is dead but what follows is a brilliantly written, surprisingly uplifting exploration of striving in the face of alienation and of the secrets we keep from others. This could be my favorite novel of the year. Chris Schluep, Parade
The emotional core of Celeste Ng s debut is what sets it apart. The different ways in which the Lee family handles Lydia s death create internal friction, and most impressive is the way Ng handles racial politics. With a deft hand, she loads and unpacks the implications of being the only Chinese American family in a small town in Ohio. Kevin Nguyen, Grantland
Beautiful and poignant . . . deftly drawn . . . . It s hard to believe that this is a debut novel for Celeste Ng. She tackles the themes of family dynamics, gender and racial stereotyping, and the weight of expectations, all with insight made more powerful through understatement. She has an exact, sophisticated touch with her prose. The sentences are straightforward. She evokes emotions through devastatingly detailed observations. Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Perceptive . . . a skillful and moving portrayal of a family in pain . . . It is to Ng s credit that it is sometimes difficult for the reader to keep going; the pain and unhappiness is palpable. But it is true to the Lees, and Ng tells all. Minneapolis Star Tribune
Impressive . . . In its evocation of a time and place and society largely gone but hardly forgotten, Everything I Never Told You tells much that today s reader should learn, ponder and appreciate. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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