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Indlæser... The Exilesaf Christina Baker Kline
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) Ferg.ma | Apr 13, 2024 |   ) hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 | ) janismack | Dec 6, 2023 | ) nyiper | Nov 24, 2023 | My previous understanding of the settlement of Australia could likely have been summed up in one sentence, so it was rather eye-opening to learn just how minor an offense could result in one's condemnation and permanent exile from one's homeland, as well as what the conditions they were likely to have been subjected to while incarcerated and during their subsequent months-long voyage halfway across the globe. While informative and, toward the end, hopeful, some of the overwhelming themes of this book are those of misery and deep injustice, which make for a potentially emotionally-draining experience. It is further distressing to consider these treatments of women and children in a country that at the time considered itself the most civilized place in the world. During the portrait scene I began to suspect Mathinna was an actual historical figure and, sure enough, she was real (if tragic), as is Bock's portrait of her in the red dress. (  ) ryner | Apr 9, 2023 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES "A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise ... Kline takes full advantage of fiction â?? its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." â?? Houston Chronicle The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazelâ??a skilled midwife and herbalistâ??is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen's Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of lega Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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