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Title: Remember Me
Author: Trezza Azzopardi
Narrator: Corrie James
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-25-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Winnie then embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life. Forced to take stock of how events long buried have brought her to a derelict house on the edge of nowhere, she relives the secrets of a past she had disowned.
As she pieces together the fragments of her life, Winnie recognizes that she is no longer simply on a hunt for stolen goods. After all these years, she has not escaped from her life at all: she has been circling it, and now must come to terms with it.
Members Reviews:
Very Odd
I must say, this is one of the strangest books I have ever listened to. I still am not sure what is is about, where it is set, or what the plot is. But you keep listening to it just to see what happens next, just thinking that soon you will figure it out. All I know is that it is about a crazy lady, and her upbringing. You feel sorry for her, and begin to understand how she got that way, but it jumps around so much that you never know for sure what is real and what is not. In the begining you think that it is going to change and soon it will start to make sence, but it never really does until the end.
A book about all of us obsessed with "things"
Azzopardi's technique of going back and forth between present and various times in the past is a little difficult to get used to. She did it in her first novel, "The Hiding Place," as well. But once you get so far into her story, you see that the way she has organized it is a careful reconstruction of how memory chases us, how so much remains buried, and when it does surface, it comes in fits and fleets, in a dream-like dance. This is the process of becoming conscious that the great psychiatrist, Carl Jung, pioneered.
Patricia/Lillian/Winnie isn't just a sad old homeless woman Azzopardi means for us to pity and think, "There but for the grace of God go I." Winnie is those among us--and we are legion, as the demons said to Christ--who have let objects usurp the place in our lives that real feeling, actual people, and the truth of events should hold. Looking at Winnie this way, we see that her actual poverty is our poverty of soul, regardless of economic status, which we hide from ourselves by acquiring things as some sort of cushion against facing up to our alienation and despair. When we save "artefacts" from our past and the pasts of those close to us, it is to remember only what was not painful and to color falsely what was reality. But finding meaning in life involves shedding the things AND the illusions and taking on the despair. Hope is on its other side.
Azzopardi is a fascinating master of character and words, and her work so far is some of the best I've read ever. She truly captures the nature of the human problem at the beginning of the 21st century and points us in the direction of its solution.
Tender and gentle, the story of a innocent
Welsh-born Trezza Azzopardi has followed up her remarkable debut novel ("Hiding Place") with one that shows maturity and skill in addition to a gentle empathy with her characters. The narrative is related by an old woman who is what was once called "simple-minded." Passed around as a child amongst adults who alternately love, use, tolerate and scorn her, she struggles to make sense of events in terms she can understand.
