Tukua te Ao Nui kia Huri
Colum McCann, 2009
Whare Takirua
400 p.
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
whakarāpopototanga
I te ata o te mutunga o te raumati, e tū puku ana te iwi o Manhattan ki raro, e titiro whakamuri ana ki ngā Pourewa Mahanga me te kore whakapono. Ko Ākuhata 1974 tēnei, ā, kei te oma, kei te kanikani, kei te pekepeke tetahi kaihīkoi taura ngaro i waenganui i ngā pourewa, e iri ana i te hauwhā maero i runga ake i te whenua. I ngā tiriti i raro iho, ka huri te tini o ngā oranga noa hei mea whakamiharo i roto i te whakaahua whakamiharo a te kaituhi rongonui a Colum McCann mō tētahi tāone me ōna tāngata.
Ko Let the Great World Spin te pukapuka tino hihiri rawa atu a te kaituhi kua whakanuia e te hunga arotake: he tirohanga whakamiharo mō te mamae, te ataahua, te mea ngaro, me te kupu whakaari o te Tāone o Niu Ioka i ngā tau 1970.
Ko Corrigan, he mōneka Airani taitamariki whakakeke, e whawhai ana ki ana ake rewera i a ia e noho ana i waenganui i ngā wahine kairau i waenganui o te Bronx e mura ana. Ka huihui tētahi rōpū whaea ki tētahi whare noho i Park Avenue ki te tangi i ā rātou tama i mate i Vietnam, ā, ka kitea te nui o te wehewehe i waenganui i a rātou ahakoa te pouri. Ka kitea e tētahi kaitoi taitamariki ia i te wāhi o tētahi patunga me te oma e tuku ana i tōna ake oranga kia takahuri. Ko Tillie, he kuia e toru tekau mā waru tau te pakeke, ka mahi tinihanga i te taha o tana tamahine taiohi, kua whakatau ia ehara i te mea ki te tiaki i tōna whānau engari ki te whakaatu i tōna ake uara.
Mā te raranga huatau i ēnei me ētahi atu oranga rerekē, ka ora te kōrero whakarite kaha a McCann i roto i ngā reo e kore e warewaretia o te iwi o te tāone, i honoa ohoreretia e te tumanako, te ataahua, me te "hara toi o te rautau." He pukapuka pāpori whānui, tino rerekē hoki, e hopu ana a Let the Great World Spin i te wairua o Amerika i te wā o te whakawhiti, te oati whakamiharo, ā, i muri mai, te harakore mamae. E whakanuia ana hei "tālena tino taketake" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), kua tukuna e te kaituhi pukapuka toa a McCann tētahi mahi toi Amerika whakamiharo e whakaoho ana i roto i a tātou i te whakaaro ki ngā mea ka taea e te pukapuka te whakatutuki, te aro atu, me te whakaora. ( Mai i te kaiwhakaputa .)