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Laddar... The Innocence of Roast Chickenav Jo-Anne Richards
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is the story of Kate, as she is now in Johannesburg 1989, and as she was as a girl down on the farm in 1966. The author has a wonderful feeling for place and period and has written a very evocative tale of simple things keenly felt, set against the dramas of apartheid and the rapidly changing "new" South Africa. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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After an idyllic childhood and magical holidays on her grandparents' chicken farm, the conundrum is why Kate, now married to Joe, a human rights' lawyer, is so cynical, closed and rigidly unforgiving.Kate's unrelenting attitude, combined with Joe's loss of faith in his ability to promote change, precipitates a bitter and painful confrontation. The necessary expiation reveals a child's loss, a child's feelings of impotence, a child's anguish at her failure to pre-empt harm.Kate's salvation is painful, evocative, beautifully drawn and utterly absorbing. Praise for The Innocence of Roast ChickenJo-Anne Richards has the writer's eye, that natural ability to sniff out the telling detail and the right word. She is a delight to savour - one of the freshest voices to emerge from South African literature in years - Peter Godwin, author of MukiwaA rapturous and tactile evocation of dust, food, noises and a childhood domain, rendered with a marked empathy for the child and the magical properties of a child's stamping ground. Elizabeth Buchan, The Times (UK)Jo-Anne Richards displays a wonderful feeling for place and period . . . her prose is sharply evocative, and she conjures up the child's powerful feelings with a vividness intensified by nostalgia. - Margaret Walters, The Sunday Times (UK) Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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