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The Lamentations of Zeno
The Lamentations of Zeno: A Novel | Ilija Trojanow
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A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the passengers in his charge, he starts to plan a desperate gesture that will send a wake-up call to an overheating world. The Lamentations of Zeno is an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising a limpid sense of place or the pace of its narrative. It is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting and at times irreverent tale that approaches the greatest challenge of our ageperhaps of our entire history as a speciesfrom an impassioned human angle.
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TrishB
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Panpan

The only reason I finished was it was small and I was using for #cli-fi
I don‘t know whether it‘s the translation or just a terrible book. There were about 10 pages of important stuff about climate change and impact on the environment and humans etc (including a bit with penguins). But otherwise......nope.
#booked2019

MicheleinPhilly Don‘t forget the vulvas! 5y
TrishB @MicheleinPhilly vaulting vulvas will never be forgotten 🤢🤢 5y
Cinfhen What???? @MicheleinPhilly @TrishB 😳😳😳 5y
TrishB @Cinfhen I posted a couple of terrible quotes! 5y
Cinfhen I‘ll have a look 5y
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Seriously 😐😐 second time in less than 50 pages vulva has been used in a totally cringeworthy way.
Struggling with this book, but it‘s small and I‘m going to finish!!

squirrelbrain Ewww 😬 5y
TrishB @squirrelbrain the other one was way worse!! 5y
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rretzler Strange! What a picture it conjures. 😬😳 5y
MicheleinPhilly Dude... 5y
TrishB @squirrelbrain @OrangeMooseReads @rretzler @MicheleinPhilly just so you can feel as queasy as me the other said ‘ her vulva gently vaulted‘ ....... 5y
squirrelbrain Double ewww! 5y
Cinfhen I‘m hoping this is just terrible case of poor translation 🤪 5y
TrishB @Cinfhen I‘m hoping so, but feeling not.... 5y
jb72 It‘s terrible when you just don‘t want to hear certain words. Currently the audiobook I‘m listening to keeps using the words panties over and over again. 5y
TrishB @jb72 it was the horrible cringeworthy use of it too! Panties doesn‘t have a good vibe either! 5y
BookwormM I hate the word panties and will add titties to the list 🤣🤣 5y
Kalalalatja 🤯🤯🤯 I can‘t even 5y
Avanders 😂😂 5y
LeahBergen 🤢 🤢 🤢 5y
TrishB @BookwormM 😱😱 yep! 5y
TrishB @Kalalalatja @Avanders @LeahBergen I think I did say excuse me very loudly when I read it! 5y
Ruthiella Reminds me of Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe where he used the term “mons veneris” about 100 times too many.🤭 5y
CarolynM Yuck! 5y
TrishB @Ruthiella ☹️☹️ 5y
TrishB @CarolynM exactly 😁 5y
Caroline2 😆 what the....????? 5y
Lindy At least he didn‘t use the c word. 😆 5y
TrishB @Caroline2 don‘t worry- I won‘t make you read it 😁😁 5y
TrishB @Lindy small mercies 😊 5y
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#ilijatrojanow formuliert herrlich. 30% gelesen, bis jetzt sehr gut.

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After finishing the Sophie School Biography yesterday (review will follow), I started Ilija Trojanows novel. It's supposedly a quick read.

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Lamentations of Zeno | Ilija Trojanow
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#fortheloveoffonts
Chosen by my daughter 😀

Michelle_mck Interested to see what you think 8y
TrishB @Michelle_mck My daughter asked me to buy it for her yesterday as she loves geography/environmental stuff. I'll have to wait til she's read it! 8y
Michelle_mck I finished it a few weeks ago - it's an interesting read (edited) 8y
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Michelle_mck
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Mehso-so

This was an interesting book, Zeno is a scientist who works on an Antarctic Cruise ship, he becomes increasingly distressed for the fate of the glaciers because of mans treatment of the earth... from here the narrative unfolds in a way I have never experienced before. This is translated from the German though the author is not a native speaker. It's interbank complex for a relatively short book #LRC15 #litsyreadingchallenge #readingaroundtheworld

minkyb Great review when limited to 451 characters! 8y
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