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Het eerste deel van het verhaal, dat in Zimbabwe speelt, in het indrukwekkendst. Het tweede deel is de verteller inmiddels - illegaal - in de VS, om een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen en beschrijft te botsing tussen twee culturen. Sterk is dat de verteller een klein meisje is dat haar jeugd in Zimbabwe beleeft, dat maakt indruk. ( )
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. It is the voice, early on, of a child — observant, skeptical and hardhearted in the way children can be. Bulawayo's keen powers of observation and social commentary, and her refreshing sense of humour, come through best in moments when she seems to have forgotten her checklist and goes unscripted: where, for example, we find Darling and her friends Krystal, the African American, and Marina, the Nigerian, watching porn in the basement, and they turn off the volume so they can make all the groaning and moaning noises themselves. Or when, on describing snow falling outside the window, she writes: "How does something so big it shrouds everything come down just like that and you don't even hear it coming?" PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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HTML: Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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