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Susan Minot - Thirty Girls, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Thirty Girls

Av Susan Minot

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A literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa. from the best-selling, award-winning author of ‘Evening’.The Lord’s Resistance Army, led by warlord Joseph Kony, has terrorised northern Uganda for years, mutilating and murdering people as they raid villages, kidnapping and raping children to expand Kony’s ‘family’.This is the fate in store for Esther. She is one of 139 students abducted from St Mary’s School. When their headmistress tracks them down she must accept a dreadful bargain; most of the girls will be released, only if thirty remain with the rebels. Esther is one of the thirty. And eventually she will have to learn to live with all she has seen and done to survive.Jane is an American writer, observing the glamour of Kenyan ex-pat life while she waits for transport to the border. She has come to write about what’s happening to Uganda’s children. But her fragile emotional state will be sorely tried by her experiences.In unflinching prose, Minot gives us razor-sharp portraits of two women struggling to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways. Intense and stunningly evocative, ‘Thirty Girls’ is Minot’s most ambitious novel yet.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-01-29
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 220 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780007550722
  • Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
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Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, ‘Monkeys’, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel ‘Evening’ was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and Maine.

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‘”Thirty Girls” is based on one of the strangest and best-known episodes from that bloody period in Ugandan history … What is unnerving about “Thirty Girls” is how easily Minot’s style fits this much more extreme and disturbing subject matter. The stark tone and structure of short, vivid scenes seem more appropriate to the tale of traumatised schoolgirls than they do to the ordinary miseries of rejection or miscommunication … Minot pulls off the account of things that might seem so horrific as to be unspeakable’ Lidija Haas, Sunday Times

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