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Bezig met laden... Gardening at Nightdoor Diane Awerbuck
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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. I love this book. I was prepared to be fairly critical because I know the author and I know that it is semi-autobiographical. I found that she captured a great sense of what growing up as a girl in South Africa was like - well, for white girls in small towns at any rate. And I came out of the novel feeling like I'd met someone new, not like I'd just learned more about someone I already knew. I've bought it for lots of my friends, and they all love it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
GARDENING AT NIGHT follows the unfolding of a young girl's life through a childhood filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood. It is about how much people are the total of their longings, how high drama can also be low comedy. It probes how much of the old century a girl should take with her into the new one, and examines the merging of families in the Eighties and their emerging into the florescence of the Nineties and beyond. It is especially the story of a girl's escape from a ghost town. The South African mining town of Kimberley was created over a hundred years ago when men with buckets scraped out the insides of the earth like a thousand black dentists. Now it is a place where the only tales are those of leaving. GARDENING AT NIGHT is feisty, and funky, and funny. And even in moments of bleakness and shock Diane Awerbuck's brand of wry humour turns this unusual and amazing first novel into a remarkable reading adventure. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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