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The Light Years: Elizabeth Jane Howard (Cazalet Chronicles)

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Y es precisamente esa la base de "Los años ligeros": todos los sentimientos, ideas y sueños de los miembros de una familia que jamás se dicen, que jamás se expresan a los demás. Y la autora lo hace con una delicadeza y un detallismo rayano en lo enfermizo que te transporta allí. il Generale e la Duchessa, capostipiti della famiglia, eredi della rigida morale vittoriana, ostinatamente contrari a ogni tipo di cambiamento; a b c Beauman, Nicola (3 January 2014). "Elizabeth Jane Howard: Writer". The Independent . Retrieved 17 February 2018. A pesar de que se avecina una guerra, refleja una familia acomodada, sin darle la mayor importancia a la situación, salvo rezar para que no pase nada, siguiendo con su despilfarro, tal como dice el título, los años ligeros.

Although the book’s description centers around the three brothers – and I have to say that put me off at first – the narrative actually focuses through very different characters, including their wives and children. And, by focusing through them, Howard explores “the nameless” problems that Victorian morals and manners still sanctioned. One of my favourite examples is the construction of female sexuality only in a heterosexual frame as something useful to bear children, but that brought no pleasure to women. The same happens with the curse which came unannounced and scared one of the children. Nos narra la vida de una familia de clase alta inglesa, los tres hermanos varones y la hermana, sus respectivos hijos, sus relaciones, amoríos, miedos... todo aderezado con la amenaza de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cada vez más presente y las consecuencias de la IGM, aún ensombreciendo la vida de los que la sufrieron. The The Light Years is the first novel in a quintet, loosely based on the memoirs of Elizabeth Jane Howard's own family. The saga begins in 1937-1938 in England.a b Brown, Andrew (9 November 2002). "Profile: Elizabeth Jane Howard". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 February 2018.

A multitude of family members are introduced in small vignettes, bringing color to the slowly developing tapestry of this affluent upper middle class family. Their prosperity is secured by their successful lumber business. Gradually we come to know the whole family, their employees, and their community. Their code of behavior are middle-class respectable, rather than aristocratic stylish, which still do not make their transition and adaptation to a less rigid hierarchy and age less painful. The boys go to school and the girls are tutored at home, to be sent off to finishing schools later. Cooper, Jonathan (23 April 1990). "Novelist Martin Amis Carries on a Family Tradition: Scathing Wit and Supreme Self-Confidence". People . Retrieved 15 June 2012. The family is wealthy due to their lumber business. They supply wood for building things, veneers for finishing things, and they supply not only common woods but also the more exotic. Although the Cazalets are well-placed financially and in society, they tend for the most part to take all their holidays together at the country estate, returning to their London homes once school resumes. They have friends, yet their family life is the most important organism around which their lives revolve. As war clouds gather on the distant horizon, Hugh, Edward, and Rupert Cazalet, along with their wives, children, and loyal servants, prepare to leave London for their annual pilgrimage to the family’s Sussex estate. There, they will join their parents, William and Kitty, and sister, Rachel, at Home Place, the sprawling retreat where the three brothers hope to spend an idyllic summer of years gone by. But the First World War has left indelible scars.Wonderful, transportive escapism. In spite of having a heaving cast of characters they are all fully developed and fully realised, you get the sense that EJH could easily have written a spin-off for any of them, right down to the most insignificant character. She knows these characters right down to their bones and by the end of the book so do we all. This is a total masterclass in character-driven family drama. The period setting grabbed me immediately and still hasn’t let me go, it has a strange way of making you nostalgic for a life you’ve never lived and stays with you long after you’ve put the book down. I only wish I’d been able to experience this book for the first time on a summer holiday in the countryside rather than when England is being battered by snowstorms!

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