- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; reprint edition (Nov 6 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184408311X
- ISBN-13: 978-1844083114
- Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 3.4 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #554,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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** 'This immensely absorbing and poignant novel starts out as a love story, set in Ceylon just prior to its independence from Britain in 1948, and develops into a family epic that plays out in postwar England ... her themes are consistent with her earlier work and just a potent: race, class, the tumultuous politics of identity and belonging, and a dogged refusal to let her characters forget the consequences of their actions Ceridwen Dovey, FINANCIAL TIMES ** 'This tale, spanning two countries and two generations, is wrenchingly beautiful, and Slovo is a master of manipulation - so much so that the reader ends up feeling as betrayed as the characters Clare Longrigg, PSYCHOLOGIES
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When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son, Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s and, no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would, England does not take kindly to strangers, especially families who are half black and half white.
A profound and moving novel, this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin.
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A Strange Uneasiness, May 22 2012
By Book Worm "Mark" - Published on Amazon.com
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Very atmospheric although often more personal than entertaining or interesting. There are of course a variety of structures for novels and this has that rawness of unedited spontaneity. I kept wanting to correct the punctuation. But often the vocabulary is strange as if the author decides to hunt for the mot juste rather than deciding to restructure a sentence. Punctuation and grammar do often tend towards a movie script with lines of dots, and hyphens broken into short paragraphs that remind me of email text in which the author assumes the reader can do the work. There are paragraphs with every sentence starting with 'She' and rarely a sentence without it. The overall effect is like a literary gun being fired into one's face. I think that authors do need to earn the respect of readers and good authors can cajole us with their pretty words. I did not find that sort of pleasure in this book although it does, perhaps, have something to offer us.
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