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Informationen zum Autor Valerie Martin is the author of six other novels and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi! SALVATION. Klappentext 'The writing - so prised and clean-limbed - is a marvel' Toni Morrison Property is Valerie Martin's powerful! startling novel set in America's deep South in the early nineteenth century. Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for her native New Orleans! but most of all she longs to be free of her suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah! a slave girl given to Manon as a wedding present! whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is played out against a brooding atmosphere of unrest and bloody uprisings! as the whispers of a slave rebellion grow louder and more threatening . . . The book that dared to tell a different story: Property , winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003, is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year Zusammenfassung Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans! but most of all! she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah! a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt! whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house! no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn . . . Beautifully written! Property is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change! where ownership is at once everything and nothing! and where belonging! by contrast! is all. ...
