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"The China Garden follows three protagonists over a 2-week period that culminates in a shocking event that affects them all. Fifty-year-old Laura has come home from Italy to bury her mother Angela and get her affairs in order. However, she has an unexpected surprise waiting for her until Angela's death, Laura had believed she was an only child, but the will has made allowance for a brother she had never known, adopted out at birth. In another part of town, 70-year-old Cress is grieving the loss, not only of Angela, but of her own faith. She consoles herself with irregular thefts from the op shop where she volunteers: an old wedding dress, a silver fork, small pictures of the Virgin Mary. Somewhere among these things, she knows, she will relocate faith, she will fend off fear. Kieran, the watcher, sees them both. Kieran is a gatherer of information, a 30-year-old quiz show addict who failed junior school but is good at other kinds of knowing; who knits his world together with cunningly garnered facts and lovingly stored information. As the tragic event looms, it pierces and links the lives of the three characters. The China Garden explores identity in mid-century and mid-life; examining the effects of social policies in a country struggling to re-establish a fascade of goodness and morality after a major world war. It shows how the events of mid-life, the death of parents, the confrontation with lost faith or the fruits of youthful mistakes might unravel the various versions of ourselves that we construct in order to survive."--Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The China Garden explores this fraught theme of distorted identity in a novel whose characters emerge from the postwar period when the absence of effective birth control created many victims of rigid social mores.
Middle-aged Laura has returned to a coastal Queensland town to bury her mother only to discover that there are secrets in Angela’s life. Cress, an enigmatic older woman with some quirky behaviours, has secrets too, while Kieran, in his thirties and yet as simple as a child, unwittingly knows more than either of the women do.
And no one really knows Abby at all.
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