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Christie Watson

Forfatter af Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

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Værker af Christie Watson

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away (2011) 312 eksemplarer
Where Women Are Kings (2013) 77 eksemplarer
Moral Injuries (2024) 3 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1976
Køn
female
Nationalitet
UK
Fødested
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Bopæl
London, England, UK
Uddannelse
University of East Anglia (MA|Creative Writing)
Erhverv
writer
pediatric nurse
Kort biografi
Christie Watson is a British novelist. Her novels, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, and Where Women are Kings have been widely translated. Christie won the Costa First Novel Award, the Waverton Good Read Award and was named Red Magazine’s Hot Woman of the Year (Creative).

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Blessing is a Nigerian girl living in the Western-styled city of Lagos with her loud & boisterous father, her more reserved mother and little brother. When Blessing's father leaves the family for another wife, those he has left behind are forced to go live with Blessing's maternal grandparents. Out in a rural area, environmentally spoiled by the oil industry, fraught with vicious and deadly gangs of boys, and served by a corrupt police force, the new extended family struggles for food, medicine and their very lives in the face of the Oyinbo (White Man). Told from Blessings point-of-view, modern day Nigeria comes more into focus as tradition wrestles with twenty-first century modernity and "progress". While the portrayal of the present day African country is well executed, there is an emotional distance from the story itself, even given dramatic turns of events. So, well-written and intellectually engaging; but somewhat "surface-level" in the telling.… (mere)
 
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Tanya-dogearedcopy | 15 andre anmeldelser | Oct 26, 2023 |
It broke my heart a bit, and that's ok. It opened my eyes a lot, and that is wonderful but feels horrible; there is no unknowing these things. Bottom line: superb book.
 
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blueskygreentrees | 12 andre anmeldelser | Jul 30, 2023 |
It was solid. Kind of dry at times and jumped around a lot in a confusing way.
 
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ninagl | 12 andre anmeldelser | Jan 7, 2023 |
Todo cambió después de que Mama encontrase a Padre con otra mujer. Mama, mi hermano Ezikiel, de catorce años, y yo nos vimos obligados a dejar nuestro piso en Lagos, que tenía un aire acondicionado tan eficaz que a veces nos daba frío, y mudarnos a Warri, el poblado de mi abuelo Alhaji, donde no había electricidad. Alhaji era el cabeza de familia en el recinto y nos convirtió a todos en musulmanes. Pero, en realidad, era Abuela la que mandaba en ese mundo. Alhaji tomó una segunda esposa, Celestine, una “Plañidera Profesional de Ciudad” a la que le encantaba llevar ropa de licra. Abuela, que era partera, tenía mucho que decir al respecto. Pero para entonces yo era su aprendiz, y sabía que había cosas mucho peores que la licra….… (mere)
 
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Natt90 | 15 andre anmeldelser | Nov 9, 2022 |

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Værker
6
Medlemmer
620
Popularitet
#40,587
Vurdering
4.1
Anmeldelser
31
ISBN
65
Sprog
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