The Autobiography of My Mother
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-agePowerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a p…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-53187-4
- EAN: 9780374531874
- Produktnummer: 13770422
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.0 cm 235 g
- Gewicht: 235
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