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He Drown She in the Sea - A Novel

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Klappentext Set on a fictional Caribbean island during World War II and in modern-day Vancouver! "He Drown She in the Sea"is the spellbinding story of two childhood friends reunited late in life. As children! Rose Sangha and her housekeeper's son! Harry! are inseparable! blissfully unaware of the subtleties of class hierarchy until the night Harry is banished from the Sangha home. When Harry and Rose meet again in Canada years later! the gulf separating them is not so apparent. They have a life-affirming affair and Rose dares to reroute their destinies. This is a haunting! sensuous! and suspenseful story about love against all odds! and the sacrifice and euphoria that come with defying the life one is born into. "Pitch-perfect ... [Mootoo] delivers on the promise of her first novel with this transcendent tale of souls wounded by circumstance and rehabilitated by love." Zusammenfassung Set on a fictional Caribbean island during World War II and in modern-day Vancouver! He Drown She in the Sea is the spellbinding story of two childhood friends reunited late in life. As children! Rose Sangha and her housekeeper's son! Harry! are inseparable! blissfully unaware of the subtleties of class hierarchy until the night Harry is banished from the Sangha home. When Harry and Rose meet again in Canada years later! the gulf separating them is not so apparent. They have a life-affirming affair and Rose dares to reroute their destinies. This is a haunting! sensuous! and suspenseful story about love against all odds! and the sacrifice and euphoria that come with defying the life one is born into.

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Authors Shani Mootoo, Mootoo Shani
Publisher Atlantic monthly press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.07.2006
 
EAN 9780802142603
ISBN 978-0-8021-4260-3
No. of pages 336
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction: general & literary, Caribbean islands, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Relating to Black British Caribbean people, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Caribbean, Caribbean Sea

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