Natives and Exotics - Paperback
by Jane Alison
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harper PaperbacksISBN-13:9780156032476ISBN-10:156032473UPC:9780156032476Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Historical, Family LifeBook Topic:SiblingsSize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCQ57D3FRT
In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism. Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harper PaperbacksISBN-13:9780156032476ISBN-10:156032473UPC:9780156032476Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sagas, Historical, Family LifeBook Topic:SiblingsSize:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCQ57D3FRT
JANE ALISON is the author of The Love-Artist and The Marriage of the Sea. Born in Canberra, Australia, she grew up in the foreign service and the United States. She now lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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