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The city of lost children (Caragh O'Brien)
The American author Caragh O'Brien makes our future in her first novel, "The City of lost children" appear pitch black.
The world is cruel to the young, sixteen year-old midwife Gaia grows up. In her village Wharfton the food, the clothes and even the luxury of entertainment through the enclave strictly rationed. The enclave is a small town, which excludes protected by a wall, the surrounding settlements. In 2390 humanity is facing the Exodus, only few people find their way through a wasteland in the area in which the mysterious enclave that seems to be paradise. But the "ordinary" people is the admittance, and they depend on their living will. But this is no small price, but rather high: Each month, the first three straight first-born infants are left at the wall. A refusal will not be tolerated, even punished with death, should the midwives in service not comply dutifully.
Gaia's mother as she is an outstanding and very capable midwife, and a little later, the parents of Gaia to be arrested, can not understand the young woman what crimes her simple parents have to answer for?
Without really optimistic unfolding of the plot, the author conveys her character but by the young Gaia hope. The culture of the people are their own path, without regard to moral and ethical reasons, the author vividly portrays respect and realistic. played in the era of the novel, will provide the necessary values and standards, a completely different balance. Again and again the reader will in this future scenario, almost pushed the steps necessary to understand.
Caragh O `Brien portrays the lost people in the enclave as a conscienceless creatures have their humanity. The powerful of this city have the fate of their inhabitants in the hand and have grounds if their actions turn more functional and rational. The resources are scarce, limited technical luxury to the absolute, or at least what is left. This is not primarily about a lack of emotion or sympathy. Life is precious, and this should be by all means and alternatives to secure recovery.
This brings the author to the already substantial reason to speak of their Core message at the same time the major conflict in this novel. "The welfare and survival of the community over the individual. intended to secure the pros and cons on the scale of the survival and the situation is much more difficult to bring into line to support a weaker and stronger to avoid injury.
In "The City of lost children" over-excited, the author unfortunately precisely this ethical and moral choices, thoughts and their actions can be run on a thin line between good and evil. Many dialogues take the action space for a constructive tension which is itself in parts first time not only shows. Caragh O `Brien overestimated the wrong track and in far too many ethical and moral problems which they actually prefer to interpret neutral as judgmental.
your protagonist Gaia is a "lone fighter" in her novel, which also is growing too fast and not realistic about yourself. Her character is designed to be straightforward and without rough edges, described also quite boring.
The "solution" of missing children is just as easily explained. In a limited number of people to even the more limited space in time or space to not move, it's basically very clear that the "children" have to fill the gaps in the family enclave. Hereditary genetic diseases and defects and even decimate the population of the city and can not guarantee the survival of this small community. Which brings us back the basic thrust: the urgency and necessity to make decisions to have to survive in which not "humans".
without a lengthy and dramatic atmosphere of the novel has such immense lengths that the interest has significantly limited. Many scenes and ideas were basically all times touched on in other novels or movies, and with the voltage lagging behind in such a way that the truly laudatory messages do not reach the author of the reader.
Conclusion
"The city of lost children" is a self-contained novel, but could be continued under the efforts of the author. However, one needs to offer you a thick atmosphere, different actions for a change and also have characters that are designed not so one-dimensional.
for myself would be the second part, it should be one not of interest.
Neither the thematic tension nor the drawing of the figures I was the book "The City of lost children" are not convincing.
Michael Sterzik
author
Caragh O'Brien is an American writer who in
Minnesota
grew up. She studied literature and creative writing, then they began in a High School
to teach as a teacher. She lives with her husband, with whom she has three children in Connecticut
. With the city of missing children Caragh O'Brien wrote her first book for teens. In Germany the book was published on 28 January 2011.
Caragh O'BRIEN
The city of missing children
novel
Original Title: Birth Marked
Original Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
From the American by Oliver Plaschka GERMAN FIRST EDITION
bound book with dust jacket, 464 pages, 13.5 x 21.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-453-52800-0
criticism 
Caragh O'Brien tells her story from the perspective of the young midwife Gaia grows up to an archaic organ globalized world. Their world and their lives are limited, they do not know different, and yet she has the courage to search for answers they may not even able to comprehend. 
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