Îmi place proza scurtă, de regulă, dar această carte m-a plictisit groaznic... Doar prologul a fost mai okay.

I think this is a great book. It is easy and I think it is more suitable for Year 7.

The boy is about 10 years old and his name is called peter. He dreams things that is impossible to happen. This book is very fictional but it is very good to read. I got bored at the middle of the book.

Fantastic illustration from Anthony Browne. Short stories, first told to McEwan's own children, about a boy who daydreams, influenced by the author's own childhood. Many of the stories are nightmarish... and have an element of the cautionary tale about them.

Arthur's daydreams send him on adventures and empower him to act in ways which would be inconceivable when fully conscious... He tends to be relieved to return to his own body, life and family... Typically for McEwan, not everything is explained or fully resolved.

This book is a very convincing portrayal of a young boy and family life. Perceptive, darkly humorous and very readable for adults as well as children.

Интересна, странна и много различна от това което очаквах. Тази книга според мен попада в категория “на 10 ще я раз��ера по един начин, на 30 по коренно различен”. Приключих я в деня, в който я започнах, но три дни по-късно все още ми е трудно да изразя какво точно мисля за книгата. Знам само, че доста ми хареса.

Raccolta di racconti che celebra la fantasia dei bambini: accompagnano il sognatore ad occhi aperti Peter in vari momenti della sua vita trasfigurati dalla sua capacità di creare realtà alternative con l’immaginazione.
Alcuni elementi di McEwan sono sempre lì sullo sfondo, appena accennati ma ben lontani da ben più macabre intuizioni di altri libri. Piacevole la rilettura a distanza di più di vent’anni

In 1995, Ian McEwan decided to write some children's fiction. Given literally everything else he has ever written, this was a very strange decision.

In the preface he names Hemingway and Calvino as his models for children's writing, and he quotes large chunks of Kafka: I feel sorry for his kids.

Simple little book of short stories. Mr E writes from he perspective of a 10 year old boys, who has his head in the clouds most of the time.

Mostly harmless

Možda je pet zvezdica mnogo, ali meni se ovo dopalo.

Kratke i zanimljive priče koje su me podsetile da je najlepše biti dete.

Peter is a very quiet who always like to stay alone and thinking about all the things that come to his mind. He don't have many friends but his mind is full with imaginations and plans. The one thing I like about this bookie when I thought it's really happening, it was just Peter daydreaming.

"Secondo lui, se si fosse sprecato un po' meno tempo a stare insieme e a convincere gli altri a fare lo stesso, e se ne fosse dedicato un po' di più a stare da soli e a pensare a chi siamo e chi potremo essere, allora il mondo sarebbe stato un posto migliore, magari anche senza le guerre."

Peter Fortune è un ragazzino di dieci anni che abita a Londra con i genitori e la sorella Kate. Per la sua famiglia e gli insegnanti è un bambino difficile, perché non parla molto ed ama stare da solo, in realtà è solo un bambino con una fervida immaginazione a cui piace molto sognare ad occhi aperti.

In questo libro sono raccolti proprio alcuni di questi sogni ad occhi aperti: le bambole di Kate che si animano e parlano, lo scambio delle rispettive vita tra Peter ed il gatto William, la pomata svanilina che fa sparire qualsiasi cosa su cui viene spalmata e molti altri.

Ho conosciuto McEwan con "Lettera a Berlino" ed l'ho amato con "La ballata di Adam Henry", qui lo ritrovo in una nuova veste, diversa ma godibile.

McEwan is a writer capable to stay on the line between reality and fantasy. This is also the case: Peter is a ten years old boy that has a peculiarity since he always dreams while is awake. His life is normal, he hasn't too much problems but he can't stop to imagine how things could be different. In this way he lives completely a parallelal life where he can turn in a cat or in a bully, or even ina superhero.

Like a lot of his book, it is a very strange book, with a style that keep you like a prison, asking yourself what you would do if you were Peter. At the end you obviously wonder what awake dreams mean for you and the answer you can find could be pretty surprising

A great way of playing with adjective and adverbs! Although it attracts me a lot at the beginning of every chapter, it bores me out in the middle of a new opening. I struggled a bit in understanding their unique way of using phrases. This book takes slightly longer time to finish compared to the other books I have read as i cannot concentrate well because it's not under my favorite categories.

This short story is about a boy always enjoy to spend all of him time daydreaming. The people around him get suspicious about him every time. He faces a lot of consequences on his original habit.