Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his
loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books
in Harvard's library. He knows not to ask too many questions, stand
out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been
governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake
of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace
and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate
children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and
libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic -
including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American
poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown
up disavowing his mother and her poems, he doesn't know her work or
what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he
receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he
is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him
through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child,
through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the
lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York,
where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed
change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways
supposedly civilized communities can turn a blind eye to the most
searing injustice. It's a story about the power - and limitations -
of art to create change in the world, the lessons and legacies we
pass onto our children, and how any of us can survive a broken
world with our hearts intact.
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V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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