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Indlæser... Accidentalsaf Susan M. Gaines
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Gaines’s melding of sensual landscapes with ruminations on political history and environmental devastation will be a treat for conservationists, and her critique of globalization and portrayal of sibling rivalry are particularly well rendered. Barbara Kingsolver fans will want to take a look. Accidentals, then, is a love story set against a backdrop of family strife and secrets – a kind of Shakespearean tragedy freighted with Cold War politics, environmental urgency, and birds .... [A] spellbinding novel from a writer whom you may not (yet) know, but whose praises you’ll soon be singing. Populated by flocks of wild parakeets, comical, ostrich-like ñandús, verdant rice fields, mate sipped from gourds, and squares of chard and egg pie, Accidentals is a rich portrait of a country and its people, relayed with detail and wonder, thanks to a naturalist’s eye.
When Gabriel's immigrant mother returns to her native Uruguay, he takes a break from his uninspiring job to accompany her. Immersed in his squabbling family, birdwatching in the wetlands on their abandoned ranch, and falling in love with a local biologist, he makes discoveries that force him to contend with the environmental cataclysm of his turn–of–millennium present—even as he confronts the Cold War–era ideologies and political violence that have shaped his family's past. No library descriptions found. |
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