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Bezig met laden... Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel (editie 2010)door Helen Simonson
Informatie over het werkDe majoor en mevrouw Ali door Helen Simonson
  
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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.  Baukis | Feb 25, 2024 |    ) connie53 | May 27, 2017 |  ) JanHeemskerk | Jul 8, 2011 |
 Simonson .. is having a great time with her first novel. She is unsparing in her willingness to send up her characters and their little village, and she is often downright funny – that intelligent kind of funny that catches readers by surprise and makes them re-read a sentence several times to figure out how the author managed to make them laugh out loud so unexpectedly.The book is almost always pitch-perfect in its demonstration of how ridiculous our small ignorances can be – and how magnificent we are when we rise above them. This thoroughly charming novel wraps Old World sensibility around a story of multicultural conflict involving two widowed people who assume they're done with love. The result is a smart romantic comedy about decency and good manners in a world threatened by men's hair gel, herbal tea and latent racism..When depicted by the right storyteller, the thrill of falling in love is funnier and sweeter at 60 than at 16. The stakes are higher, after all, and the lovers have stored up decades of peculiarities and anxieties As with the polished work of Alexander McCall Smith, there is never a dull moment but never a discordant note either. Still, this book feels fresh despite its conventional blueprint. Its main characters are especially well drawn, and Ms. Simonson makes them as admirable as they are entertaining. They are traditionally built, and that’s not just Mr. McCall Smith’s euphemism. It’s about intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone. “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” has them all. Is verkort inHeeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. 
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.95)
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Knap werk, gesitueerd in het idyllische West-Sussex. Hoofdpersoon is major Pettigrew, een man van eer met diepmenselijke gevoelens. Er is zijn zoon Roger, materialistisch ingesteld en zijn mooie verloofde Sandy, én Mrs.Ali, de weduwe van de Pakistaanse winkelier, het enige in het dorpje. Het verhaal begint met het overlijden van broer Bertie en de hele commotie rond de beide Churchillgeweren, een erfenis van hun vader. Een beklijvend verhaal, beslist een aanrader.
De kwaliteit van het verhaal en de schrijfstijl gaan hand in hand. Cosy English litterature ;))) (