Tin Man -

Sarah Winman

G.P. Putnam's Sons

2018

214 páginas

7h 8m

ISBN-10: 0735218722

A novel celebrating love in all of its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town.

This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.

Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more.

But then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between?

Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living.

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Tin Man - Sarah Winamn

"And when he stopped, she bent down and kissed him on the head and said, Thank you. Because everything she held on to and everything she believed in came together in that unexpected moment. The simple belief that men and boys were capable of beautiful things."

Não tinha a intenção de ler Tin Man agora, na verdade, não o conhecia até dois dias atrás, mas quando comecei não consegui deixar para depois.

Uma história muito bem escrita, sensível, sobre relações, sobre amor, sobre laços que se formam entre pessoas que dividem dores, sentimentos, anseios, desejos, que transcendem o clichê mas que surgem de uma conexão inesperada e poderosa.

Apesar de melancólico, o livro deixa a gente com vontade de explorar mais a vida de Ellis, Michael e Annie. A gente quer mais tempo com eles, mais chances para eles, mais sorrisos, mais abraços, beijos, fotos, pinturas, livros... Mais de tudo o que faltou e que eles mereciam.

E, ao fim, a gente fica como Dora contemplando os girassóis de Van Gogh.