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انهيار رجل #1

انهيار رجل - الجزء الأول

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Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged from his white Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old child. With only four days before he’s due in to pick up his family, he must make some sense out of his life. Alternating between his past—as an inner city child bused to the suburbs in the 1970’s—and a present where he is trying mightily to keep his children in private schools, we learn of his mother’s abuses, his father’s abandonment, and the best and worst intentions of a supposedly integrated America. This is an extraordinary debut about what it feels like to be pre-programmed to fail in life—and the urge to escape that sentence.

333 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

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الرواية الأولى للكاتب الأمريكي مايكل توماس وسرد فيه شيء من التشابه مع حياته الشخصية
بالتناوب بين الماضي والحاضر يحكي الراوي وهو رجل أمريكي من أصول أفريقية
عن ذكرياته وأزماته النفسية والمالية التي تؤثر على حياته وزواجه وأولاده
وكأنه يقف على حافة هاوية محاولا مقاومة هواجسه التي تدعوه للسقوط
ضياع الأحلام والإخفاقات التي تصاحب الانسان في الحياة, سواء كانت رغما عنه أم باختياره
فتنتهي به إلى حالة من الحزن والهروب وفقدان الرغبة في المواصلة
الرواية تتناول نظرة الراوي للهوية العرقية, ووهم الحلم الأمريكي في زمن سادت فيه العنصرية
وآثارها القاتمة التي شكلت حياة جيل الآباء وامتدت لطفولته في السبعينيات
والطفولة المضطربة التي تترك أثر واضح على نفسية وتفكير الانسان
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