Bones and all

Luca Guadagnino si è ispirato a questo libro per il suo ultimo film, incuriosita da questo e dalla trama ho deciso di acquistare il libro. Il cannibalismo è l'argomento centrale della storia. Marel 16 anni abbandonata dalla madre decide di andare alla ricerca del padre, nel suo cammino incontrerà molte persone che come lei si cibano di essere umani. Una storia banale, scritta in modo semplice e poco impegnativa. Speravo di trovare qualcosa di interessante sul "cannibalismo" ma non è stato così. È sicuramente una lettura adatta ad una fascia di età molto giovane (14/18).

Libro riscoperto grazie al film. Un bel viaggio, molto affascinante nonostante l'argomento. Consigliato, anche dopo avere visto il film.

I want to start this review by saying that I'm Italian, so I read the book after it was translated by the publisher so there may be some shortcomings given by the various typos I found in the text. I decided to read it after seeing the film because, reading the reviews of it, I understood that they were two stories similar but not identical. In my opinion, the narration has an interesting incipit: cannibalism is certainly not a theme treated in this way by other authors. Unfortunately it didn't convince me at all. At the beginning, I gladly followed the main character's story, hoping for an evolution of her during the narrative arc. Later, the two highlights of the book, which could have been expanded upon, ranked below what I expected. The fact that Sully was Maren's grandfather, for example, was completely irrelevant within the narrative and, indeed, nullified everything that up to now the reader knew about the man: if everything he had told up to that point it's fake, how did he find her? how did he choose his victims? who was the child's mother? he followed mother and daughter for 16 years? If yes, why not take action when she was camping alone? Another disappointment was Lee's death. Being the co-protagonist, I expected that, under the pretext of his death, we would be given more details on how Maren eats victims. Or about her feelings during the act. Instead nothing. The whole story between the two, the emotional growth of both and the guilt feelings on which entire pages have been spent, have been liquidated in four lines. Speaking of the last chapter, I found it completely useless. The reader, with the ending of the penultimate chapter, could have chosen whether to believe that she would have had redemption before eating Lee or simply understand, without description, that she couldn't help but satisfy her hunger.