The girl who stood men up edition by Davide Giglioli Caroline Thonger Literature Fiction eBooks
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George has a problem his daughter lacks the courage to break off her relationships. So she asks him for help “Dad, can you please go on the final date with my boyfriend?” Powerless to resist, George accepts the assignment. And so he starts playing a game that will allow him to rediscover, amid the tedium of everyday routine, the beauty in his own life.
The girl who stood men up edition by Davide Giglioli Caroline Thonger Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a great and unique story. It has some very interesting ways to describe life. The story about a girl that had a lot of relationships that decided to settle down, but this would affect a lot of people.I loved the characters: Gregory the teacher with the story of October (Amazing!), Charles the actor,Louis the pastor was hilarious. Vincent and George's view of life "Life is the only value in all its forms and expressions" is profoundly true, to Patrick the runner, John shocked at the restaurant, Marinette and Monica.
It is also a story about the profound love of a family that goes through ups and downs and ends up stronger.
I strongly recommed this book to someone that's looking for a unique, profound thoughtful story. I truly enjoyed it!
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The girl who stood men up edition by Davide Giglioli Caroline Thonger Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A charming "what if?" from a surprisingly different perspective!
A story of a father's love and how that love takes him on an unexpected journey. A reflection on life and a man's view on his world and his history. Touching. Will have to read in original French!
A great short read, which roams through locations in Switzerland and France and elicits giggles. The story builds admiration for George, the father, and reminds us of so much that is good about "savouring every heartfelt, prolonged gesture", as George states near the end of the book. Highly recommended.
The main protagonist in this book is not The Girl of the book title, but her overindulgent father who accepts the mission of letting down her various suitors. George begins reluctantly but warms to the task. Perhaps he agrees to meet the men to get a glimpse of the woman his daughter has become? Perhaps it's Marinette's way of preparing her father for her ultimate choice of partner?
Mr. Giglioli has found an imaginative storyline that transports us through the space and time of his creative brain. The prose is deceptively simple and fresh as we accompany George on this journey. In meandering with him through cities and villages, epicurean delights, soccer games, mathematical hyperbola, great literature, births and death, we unearth profound nuggets to mull over …
"Do you know what we’re losing? Only something that doesn’t belong to us... we can only possess that which we love, and that’s ours for ever.”
A few pages in, we are picturing a stunning stormy view over Lake Geneva, with a church tower on the French side in dazzling sunshine against the dark sky, embodying the stormy emotions caused by what’s just happened — so much so, that our narrator is worried that the young man by his side might consider leaping to his death into, well, a potager down below them on the hillside. He doesn’t; instead, he quotes a line of Goethe. This is civilised Switzerland, after all.
In this short comedy of manners, Davide Giglioli brings a droll, urbane flavour to the musings of his narrator George, on the outside a hefty bruiser, on the inside a sensitive and romantic soul. The book starts with an unusual blind date; every chapter has a different play on the same theme. At the same time as getting used to the theme, and second-guessing the outcomes, we learn about the George’s family and backstory; we observe the varied effects of his daughter Marinette’s breakups (in which George has a role to play), and how they affect George’s own life and transmute his relationships.
It comes as no surprise that food, wine, bars and restaurants are recurring elements in a style as light and fluffy as a classy souffle, the book reads like a series of carefully-constructed cameos, a sequence of dainty, digestible mouthfuls that can almost stand alone as flash fiction or poetry, skilfully evoking views, buildings and streets and parks, mini-movies, sets, gestures — and meals, conversations, atmospheres. Every morsel is grounded in a sense of place, anchored by the flavours, shapes and scents familiar to anyone who has wandered through the seasons across France, Italy or Switzerland.
A good slug of philosophy gives this lightweight mix some heft and punch, and a spicing of the absurd. In some ways the book is an excuse for a series of musings sparked by quotes it begins with Goethe and travels via Flaubert and Kundera from suicide through the mysteries and conundrums of maths and football all the way to slapstick. For example, Chapter 8 examines Gregorian and Julian calendars and the problem — or possible benefit — of disappearing days. Chapter 9 consists of five graphs that illustrate George’s thought process while dreaming about his chances of nabbing a pretty girlfriend — he lost me here for a while, maths not being a forte or hobby of mine, nor the picking up of girls, pretty or otherwise.
George has a penchant for the romantic and an irrepressibly optimistic world view, thinly disguised by his world-weary schtick. This makes the book a little sweet for me, but a charming, easy, witty read that is perfect for an afternoon on a sunny terrace with your .
What started out as an interesting concept- why would a father not make his daughter be an adult and take care of her own breakups- turned to be so out there I could not finish the book.
This is a great and unique story. It has some very interesting ways to describe life. The story about a girl that had a lot of relationships that decided to settle down, but this would affect a lot of people.
I loved the characters Gregory the teacher with the story of October (Amazing!), Charles the actor,Louis the pastor was hilarious. Vincent and George's view of life "Life is the only value in all its forms and expressions" is profoundly true, to Patrick the runner, John shocked at the restaurant, Marinette and Monica.
It is also a story about the profound love of a family that goes through ups and downs and ends up stronger.
I strongly recommed this book to someone that's looking for a unique, profound thoughtful story. I truly enjoyed it!
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