现货The Thief of Words[9781593720506]

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作者Lawrence, Starling

出版社Quantuck Lane Press

ISBN9781593720506

出版时间2013-03

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页数224页

正文语种英语

上书时间2024-04-01

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商品描述: Young, and full of an unfathomed desire to immerse herself in Africa, Nora Fenton arrives as a volunteer in a coastal village in Sierra Leone: an American innocent, an accident waiting to happen. She has little understanding of the turbulence in her heart, of the complexities of race and religion in this place, or the hidden politics of the diamond trade. The layered account of her love affairs -- prickly Aurelia, a South African refugee; soft-spoken, green-eyed Morlai -- is interspersed with the confession by a writer named Owen of his doomed love for Nora years later in New York. In the angles between these characters lies a kaleidoscope of hidden stories and half-truths, wherein simplicity is fractured into unbearable complexity. And throughout, Owens voice – masterful, elegant, and yet unhinged by loss – casts a spell, drawing us in and ratcheting up the intensity until we arrive at the devastating final chapters.

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