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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Jellyfish Have No Ears
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Quercus Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 3RZLQVL
EAN: 9781529437911
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Zustellung: Mo, 06.07.2026
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Beschreibung
Since she was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf - her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible, making the decision all the more fraught. The technology would give Louise a new sense of hearing - but it would be at the expense of her natural hearing, which, for all its weakness, has shaped her unique relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows. Hearing, for Louise, is inseparable from reading other people's lips. Through sight, she perceives words and strings them together like pearls to reconstruct a conversation. But when the string breaks, misunderstandings result and eccentric images fill her thoughts. As she weighs the prospect of surgery, fabulous characters begin to accompany her: a traumatised soldier from the First World War, an irritable dog named Cirrus, and a whimsical botanist. This ethereal world, full of terror and beauty and off-kilter humour, keeps erupting into the equally chaotic reality of Louise's life as she experiences a new relationship, suffers through her first job, and steadies herself with friends. In eighty brief vignettes,. Adèle Rosenfeld shines an extraordinary light on the black hole of losing a sense and on the vibrancy that can arise to fill the void. Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Adèle Rosenfeld
- Zuckerman Jeffrey
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 224