My Name Is Memory - Couverture souple

Brashares, Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340953519 ISBN 13 : 9780340953518

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2011

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I have lived more than a thousand years. I have died countless times. I forget precisely how many times. My memory is an extraordinary thing, but it is not perfect. I am human.

The early lives blur a bit. The arc of your soul follows the pattern of each of your lives. It is macrocosmic. There was my childhood. There have been many childhoods. And even in the early part of my soul I reached adulthood many times. These days, in every one of my infancies, the memory comes faster. We go through the motions. We look oddly at the world around us. We remember. I say “we” and I mean myself, my soul, my selves, my many lives. I say “we” and I also mean the other ones like me who have the Memory, the conscious record of experience on this earth that survives every death. There aren’t many, I know. Maybe one in a century, one born out of millions. We find one another rarely, but believe me, there are others. At least one of them has a memory far more extraordinary than mine.

I have been born and died many times in many places. The space between them is the same. I wasn’t in Bethlehem for Christ’s birth. I never saw the glory that was Rome. I never bowed to Charlemagne. At that time I was scratching out a crop in Anatolia, speaking a dialect unintelligible to the villages north and south. Only God and the devil can be counted on for all the thrilling parts. The great hits of history go along without the notice of most. I read about them in books like everybody else.

Sometimes I feel more akin to houses and trees than to my fellow human beings. I stand around watching the waves of people come and go. Their lives are short, but mine is long. Sometimes I imagine myself as a post driven into the ocean’s edge.

I’ve never had a child, and I’ve never gotten old. I don’t know why. I have seen beauty in countless things. I have fallen in love, and she is the one who endures. I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always search for her; I always remember her. I carry the hope that someday she will remember me.

Revue de presse

A well-written love story (Heat)

There are a lot of books I like and there are a lot of books I love and this is by far a love that I'm sure if I was to read it again and again I would see it a new light each time. (thereadingsofabusymum.blogspot.com)

The centuries-old background to their story is as compelling as the action in the present and makes their constant near misses tear-provokingly frustrating. And the involvement of Daniel's evil brother adds the heart-racing pace of this thriller. It's a book that will inevitably draw comparisons to The Time Traveller's Wife, and stands up well to that modern classic. (News of the World)

It has everything you could want from a good book . . . I cannot recommend this book highly enough . . . I suggest you all add it to your summer reading list. You won't be disappointed. (daisychainbookreviews.blogspot.com)

'It's the type of book that takes all those questions we ask ourselves about destiny and the meaning of life and explores them so convincingly that it's almost as thought the author has stumbled upon a secret. Magical'. (I Was A Teenage Book Geek)

'[T]his beautifully written novel is already on its way to becoming a Hollywood movie'. (Star Magazine)

'This clever story about someone trying to catch-up with a long lost love, will be a hit with fans of Branshares'. (Press Association)

A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love... (American Saturday Review)

My Name is Memory is a captivating, open-ended story that begs for a sequel. I'll be watching for it. (Long and Short Reviews)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0340953519
• ISBN 13: 9780340953518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416