The Boy Next Door - Brossura

Sabatini, Irene

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340918837 ISBN 13: 9780340918838

Casa editrice: Sceptre, 2010

Riassunto

Winner of the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers Two days after I turned fourteen the son of our neighbour set his stepmother alight. Or so Lindiwe Bishop believes, though eighteen months later the charges against Ian McKenzie are dropped and he returns home, full of charm and swagger. Intrigued, Lindiwe strikes up a covert friendship with the mysterious white boy next door. As a bond grows between them, they cannot foreseee how severely it will be tested in the years ahead - by secrets and by a world that wants nothing more than to divide them. Vividly evoking Zimbabwe's slide from independence into chaos, THE BOY NEXT DOOR tells an engrossing tale about what it means to witness, change, love and remain whole when all around you is falling apart.

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Recensione:

'One of the most engaging novels about inter-racial love to be published this century...entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don't miss it.' --Amanda Craig, Independent

'What a worthy winner of the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers. This is an exuberant, tender and often humorous love story...Irene Sabatini is a born writer, and she has told a completely engrossing story which combines brilliantly realised fictional characters as well as evoking the only too real sad degradation of a once-thriving country.' --Carla McKay, Daily Mail

'A fine and accomplished first novel...full of understanding, insight and powerful beauty' --Alexander Lucie-Smith, Tablet

L'autore:

Irene Sabatini grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. She studied psychology at the University of Zimbabwe and then took a Masters at the Institute of Education in London. She has lived and worked in several countries: teaching in Colombia, conducting research work in Barbadian schools and writing environmental science books for Zimbabwean primary schools. She currently lives in Geneva with her husband and two sons.

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• Editore: Sceptre
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0340918837
• ISBN 13: 9780340918838
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416