Title: Inland Pdf A Novel
Author: Téa Obreht
Published Date: 2019
Page: 384
“What Obreht pulls off here is pure poetry. It doesn’t feel written so much as extracted from the mind in its purest, clearest, truest form.”—Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A) “Inland is a classic story, told in a classic way—and yet it feels wholly and unmistakably new. . . . At once a new Western myth and a far realer story than many we have previously received—and that’s even with all the ghosts.”—NPR“With Inland, Obreht makes a renewed case for the sustained, international appeal of the American West, based on a set of myths that have been continually shaped and refracted through outside lenses. . . . Discovering the particular genre conventions that Obreht has chosen to transfigure or to uphold soon becomes central to the novel’s propulsive appeal.”—The New Yorker“It’s a voyage of hilarious and harrowing adventures, told in the irresistible voice of a restless, superstitious man determined to live right but tormented by his past. At times, it feels as though Obreht has managed to track down Huck Finn years after he lit out for the Territory and found him riding a camel. . . . The unsettling haze between fact and fantasy in Inland is not just a literary effect of Obreht’s gorgeous prose; it’s an uncanny representation of the indeterminate nature of life in this place of brutal geography.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “Propulsive . . . Obreht has swapped the tumultuous history of the former Yugoslavia for that of the American frontier. What she retains, in addition to infectious storytelling and a split, double narrative, is the strong sense of superstition which pervades the earlier fiction; a form of magic realism is at work here, which does not detract from the harshly explicit truths transmitted about the nature—and the price—of survival.”—Financial Times“Exquisite . . . The historical detail is immaculate, the landscape exquisitely drawn; the prose is hard, muscular, more convincingly Cormac McCarthy than McCarthy himself.”—The Guardian“In a moment where the book world fetishizes self-examination and minute, sentence-level showiness, it is not only a relief but a privilege to see Obreht shoot the moon with this sprawlingly ambitious and fully imagined tale.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Rivers of blood and ink have been spilled mythologizing the American Southwest, but rarely if ever with the sort of giddy beauty Téa Obreht brings to the page in Inland. . . . [She] displays dazzling dexterity and wit with the English language, transporting the reader to a fantastical late nineteenth century that borders on outright fantasy, where descriptions wax decadent and ghosts are treated as a matter of fact.”—USA Today "Téa Obreht’s M.O. is clear: She’s determined to unsettle our most familiar, cliché-soaked genres. . . . Inland can feel like Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian turned inside out: contemplative rather than rollicking, ghostly rather than blood-soaked.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Téa Obreht’s debut novel, The Tiger's Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was an international bestseller. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in New York with her husband and teaches at Hunter College.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • The Washington Post • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • The New York Public Library • The Dallas Morning News • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPage
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life—her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home.
Meanwhile, Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Lurie’s death-defying trek at last intersects with Nora’s plight is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel.
Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Téa Obreht’s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely—and unforgettably—her own.
Praise for Inland
“As it should be, the landscape of the West itself is a character, thrillingly rendered throughout. . . . Here, Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace. Remarkable in a novel with such a sprawling cast, Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Beautifully wrought.”—Vanity Fair
“Obreht is the kind of writer who can forever change the way you think about a thing, just through her powers of description. . . . Inland is an ambitious and beautiful work about many things: immigration, the afterlife, responsibility, guilt, marriage, parenthood, revenge, all the roads and waterways that led to America. Miraculously, it’s also a page-turner and a mystery, as well as a love letter to a camel, and, like a camel, improbable and splendid, something to happily puzzle over at first and take your breath away at the end.”—Elizabeth McCracken, O: The Oprah Magazine
A Long Treck Inland This novel is set in late nineteenth century Arizona Territory. There are a paltry number of instances in which Obreht's prose verges on poetry. The author leads the reader through the desiccated desert landscape and the difficulties of an arid lifestyle in that setting. These paltry instances are overshadowed by significant problems with the writing style of the novel. First, the events of the novel are repeated and overly described. Where was the editor with a sharpened pencil? Most of the chapters take at least an hour to complete. Less can be more and certainly the reader can grasp the setting and characters with more concise writing. Second, many words within the story are Spanish or Turkish. Some can be figured out from the context, but most definitions could not be found on the kindle dictionary. Why were these words used? The time frame of both of the main characters do not correspond. The life of Nora Lark, a pioneer wife, unfolds over a 24 hour period and Lourie Mattie, the other main character, is a Turkish orphan whose story flows from age 6 when he arrives in America to adulthood as a camel herder. When these two main characters meet in the final chapter, the encounter and its outcome make no sense at all. Fourth, both Nora and Lourie frequently have conversations with the dead. These conversations are two sided and ridiculous. Finally, nothing is resolved in the end about Nora's financial decision and the missing members of her family or why she has such a violent encounter with Lourie, whom she does not know at all. Nora's actions in the last chapter are out of character as the author has developed her thoughout the novel. Unfortunately, this book was a dense, difficult and disappointing read.Stunning writing, vivid and engulfing Weaving together the essence of a time in history and its characters in a stream of earthy and ethereal tales, it, after a few chapters, rises above almost any other fiction in technique and hard hitting effect. Not an easy read, but a glorious one.I'D GIVE IT 10 STARS IF I COULD! ★★★★★★★★★★ I grew up reading about the American West. I thrilled to the adventures of the cowboys and gunfighters and woodsmen and buckaroos, who, in my boyish fantasies, represented everything good about humankind: they were brave, strong, fearless, heroic, yet polite and good-hearted. My grandfather gave me a set of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" when I was 9 or 10 and I immediately began reading every page, often after my folks thought I was asleep. When I was old enough to go downtown and discover used book stores, I bought and read a couple dozen, at least, classics by Zane Grey. On the radio I listened to Tom Mix (played by an actor named Curly Bradley) and Hopalong Cassidy. Cowpokes were my heroes; my late Uncle Reuben, whom I knew only from a photo of him aboard a horse, with a bandolero strung across his chest and shoulders, was my idol.So, to make a much longer story short, and keeping in mind that I am an old man, just a few months shy of 80, let me say that as I read "Inland," by Téa Obreht, I was stunned to realize that the fabled Great American Novel about the Great American West was not only mostly about a woman, it was written by a woman! Let me assure you that this was an epiphany, a wonderful, amazing discovery for this reader!There's no point in reiterating the two tales told by narrators whose stories finally, at the end of "Inland," intersect. Let me instead say that Obreht is more than a magnificent writer; she is among the very best American writers! She thinks like a shaman, she visualizes her dusty corner of Arizona like the best of our poets, she considers the human condition like a philosopher and she paints a portrait of Nora -- mother, wife, toiler on the small, hard-scrabble spread she shares with her family -- equal to any character portrayal by any author I've read! Nora's husband and two older sons are missing, gone on mysterious errands. Nora is left at home with her small son, Toby, her aged mother-in-law, an addled niece who's smarter than anyone thinks, and the ghost of a daughter who died years earlier. Let me say that the West, in :"Inland," as no doubt in real life, is populated by ghosts. The other narrator of "Inland" sees the ghosts, although they do not see each other. After reading this novel you'll never again feel completely alone, no matter how far you may find yourself out in the woods or on the desert sands!Have I heaped enough praise on "Inland"? If not, assume I am still heaping it on. This is more than a fine book, it's the best novel I've read in years.
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