The Kitchen House (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
400
Utgivningsdatum
2013-08-29
Förlag
Black Swan
Dimensioner
198 x 128 x 25 mm
Vikt
284 g
ISBN
9780552779128

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The Kitchen House (häftad)

The Kitchen House

av Kathleen Grissom
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'You must not become too friendly with them,' she said. 'They are not the same as us.' 'How?' I asked. 'How are they not the same?' When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white woman and the people she knows as kin... A compelling, powerful and poignant coming-of-age story about the fragility of family,and where love and loyalty prevail.
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  1. Mixed feelings about this book. A true and very...
    M. G., 10 november 2013

    Mixed feelings about this book.

    A true and very tragic story about masters, slaves and their children in a plantation
    in Virginia, well written but with a hurried and confusing end.
    It felt weird.....and also the fact that K. Grissom said she had a vision and was
    "guided" to write the book.

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a potent picture of servant life in plantation America. * Sainsburys Magazine * A powerful, well written story that doesn't pull any punches. * Choice, April 2013 * A heart-breaking novel set on a 1790s Virginia plantation. A page-turning romantic tragedy. * ASOS magazine, April 2013 * The plantation's social order's emphasis on violence, love, power, and corruption provides a trove of tension and grit, while the many nefarious doings will keep readers hooked to the twisted, yet hopeful, conclusion. * Publishers Weekly * I recommend the novel THE KITCHEN HOUSE by Kathleen Grissom. This novel, like THE HELP, does important work: it factors in the experience not only of African-Americans under enslavement, but of poor white Europeans, who, during the same period of American history, were often indentured. * Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and Pulitzer Prize winner *

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Over the past ten years, Kathleen Grissom and her husband have been restoring an old plantation tavern in Virginia. While researching the plantation's past, Kathleen found an old map on which, not far from their home, was the notation, 'Negro Hill.' Unable to determine the story of its origin, local historians suggested that it most likely represented a tragedy. This became the inspiration behind THE KITCHEN HOUSE. This is Kathleen Grissom's first novel.