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Synopsis
A gardener flees the violence of the Clearances in early nineteenth-century Scotland for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise he finds there. In 1929 his great-great-granddaughter, helping to settle the wilds of Australia, confronts troubling traces of her country's past. Forty years later her own granddaughter is ravished by the beauty of a South American country her diplomat parents are engaged in despoiling.
In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, the novel follows these three characters, linked by blood and legacy, through four stories that span a period from the discovery of the first dinosaur bones to the unsettling revelation that the continents drift. With cameo appearances by Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.
In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, the novel follows these three characters, linked by blood and legacy, through four stories that span a period from the discovery of the first dinosaur bones to the unsettling revelation that the continents drift. With cameo appearances by Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.
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À propos de l'auteur
JANE ALISON is the author of The Love-Artist and The Marriage of the Sea. Born in Canberra, Australia, she grew up in the foreign service and the United States. She now lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Natives and Exotics
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Houghton Mifflin, 2005
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Hardback. Etat : Good. A kind of family album where, finally, no one is out of place.--The New York Times Book Review Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her diplomat parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, her grandmother Violet, a newlywed making a home in the wilds of Australia, confronts troubling traces of her country's past. In his time, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees violence in Scotland, only to unwittingly destroy the earthly paradise he finds in the Portuguese Azores. Natives and Exotics follows these three characters, linked by blood and legacy, in their uneasy affairs with nature as they restlessly search for home. In Natives and Exotics, Jane Alison takes us where history books can't or won't go . . . Though set hundreds of years apart, these stories quickly flow into a single narrative powerful enough to show how closely related our familial, political and natural worlds really are. The Washington Post Book WorldVivid and poignant . . . What gives pleasure is how precisely [Alison] sees the fierce beauty of the natural world, as it moves, grows, evolves, both despite and because of the blind interference of humankind. The Seattle TimesA family's diaspora becomes an intriguing tale told backward . . . Exquisitely observed, wonderfully off the beaten track.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist and The Marriage of the Sea. Born in Canberra, Australia, she grew up in the foreign service and the United States. She now lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. N° de réf. du vendeur 00083328844
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Hardback. Etat : Good. A kind of family album where, finally, no one is out of place.--The New York Times Book Review Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her diplomat parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, her grandmother Violet, a newlywed making a home in the wilds of Australia, confronts troubling traces of her country's past. In his time, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees violence in Scotland, only to unwittingly destroy the earthly paradise he finds in the Portuguese Azores. Natives and Exotics follows these three characters, linked by blood and legacy, in their uneasy affairs with nature as they restlessly search for home. In Natives and Exotics, Jane Alison takes us where history books can't or won't go . . . Though set hundreds of years apart, these stories quickly flow into a single narrative powerful enough to show how closely related our familial, political and natural worlds really are. The Washington Post Book WorldVivid and poignant . . . What gives pleasure is how precisely [Alison] sees the fierce beauty of the natural world, as it moves, grows, evolves, both despite and because of the blind interference of humankind. The Seattle TimesA family's diaspora becomes an intriguing tale told backward . . . Exquisitely observed, wonderfully off the beaten track.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist and The Marriage of the Sea. Born in Canberra, Australia, she grew up in the foreign service and the United States. She now lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN0151012016G
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