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At the house on Zwarterzusterstraat four very different women have made their way from Africa to claim for themselves the riches of Europe. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros.The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, shatters their already fragile world and as the women gather to mourn, the stories they have kept hidden are finally told.
Drawn together by tragedy, the women reveal, each in her own voice, what has brought them to their present lives. Joyce, a great beauty whose life has been destroyed by war; Ama, whose dark moods manifest a past injustice; Efe, whose efforts to earn her keep are motivated by a particular zeal and finally, Sisi, whose imagination takes her far beyond the squalor of her reality. These are stories of terror, of displacement, of love, and of a sinister man named Dele...
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"Vividly real and humane, a window on a fascinating and unfamiliar world where women laugh and fight and struggle to survive" (Maggie Gee)
"haunting story...Sometimes a novel can tell you more than any amount of documentary journalism." (Alastair Campbell The Observer, The New Review)
"evokes a half life, where dreams of happiness block out a grubby reality" (Boyd Tonkin i)
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"haunting story...Sometimes a novel can tell you more than any amount of documentary journalism." (Alastair Campbell The Observer, The New Review)
"evokes a half life, where dreams of happiness block out a grubby reality" (Boyd Tonkin i)
A tale of choices, displacement and courage, suffused with the richness of the oral story-telling tradition and set against the backdrop of the Antwerp prostitute underworld.
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- EditoreJonathan Cape
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 0224085301
- ISBN 13 9780224085304
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
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