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Suggestions: June 2013: Bildungsroman

Polly Parrot

Polly Parrot

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It can be any novel, from any period, that is a bildungsroman (a novel of education, formation, maturation).
 
Class of novel derived from German literature that deals with the formative years of the main character, whose moral and psychological development is depicted. It typically ends on a positive note, with the hero's foolish mistakes and painful disappointments behind him and a life of usefulness ahead. It grew out of folklore tales in which a dunce goes out into the world seeking adventure. One of the earliest novelistic developments of the theme, Johann W. von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795–96), remains a classic example.
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That line made me laugh ...

Ok so I need to think about this one.
 
Examples of Bildungsromans:

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1850)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Or, if you prefer something more recent:
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999)
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and.... (1997-2007)
 
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) - :confused:
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1850) :(
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) :(
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) :mad:

Or, if you prefer something more recent:
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) :confused:
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003) o_O
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and.... (1997-2007) :( :( :(

needs more thinking to come up with some thing age appropriate, interesting and readable.
 
Ok after MUCH searching this is my choice:

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

http://www.amazon.com/Bee-Season-Novel-Myla-Goldberg/dp/0385498802

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul inducts her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks upon a lone quest for spiritual fulfillment. When Miriam's secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos.

Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Bee, Eliza's small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt.

Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer.
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I saw the movie which was remarkable and I would like to read the book.
 
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