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Bezig met laden... How to Be a Revolutionary: A Novel (editie 2022)door C.A. Davids (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Thank you to CA Davids, Verso Books and Netgalley for my ARC copy. I love this book. It gives voices to POCs and I love how it covers different time and countries. The characters are memorable especially Zhao and Beth. This book is timely and a must read. This book deserves to be a bestseller! I would probably buy a hard copy once it becomes available. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Named one of ESSENCE's "9 South African Entertainers You Should Know" An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises. At night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes--who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript--chunk by chunk--appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend... Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--How to Be a Revolutionary is an amazingly ambitious novel. It's also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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