Emma Brockes
Auteur van She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
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- Geboortedatum
- 1975
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Oxford University (BA | English)
- Korte biografie
- From the Harper Collins page (www.harpercollins.com):
Emma Brockes is an award-winning writer at the UK Guardian. She studied English at Oxford University, where she edited Cherwell, the student newspaper, and won the Philip Geddes Prize for journalism. In 2001 she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In 2002 she was voted Feature Writer of the Year, one of the youngest-ever recipients of the award. She lives in London.
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The process of her investigation is engaging, and the story she gradually uncovers is pretty fascinating, though very disturbing. The book is also interesting for its perspective on both Apartheid era and post-Apartheid South Africa, from the perspective of Brocke's white South African family.
I was quite pleased that there wasn't too much of Brocke herself in the book. In fact much of her own life is elided, so that visits to South Africa that are months apart almost run together.
She paints her South African family in vivid colours - you can really feel their struggle to transcend their traumatic family history, and their small everyday victories in having survived, though none of them are unscathed. But overall, this is a touching and evocative paean to Brocke's mother, who is painted most vividly of all.… (meer)