Heaven Forbid - Couverture souple

Hope, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330367056 ISBN 13 : 9780330367059

Editeur : Picador, 2004

Synopsis

In the sunny, jacaranda leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of buoyant childish rhymes and his colourful, Irish extended family. There's exuberant Grandpa who sings and races horses; chain smoking Auntie Fee, who always sides with the ogres in fairy tales and who makes up her own stories about Martin's dead father; and above all Georgie, the family's Zulu servant and Martin's confidant. But this cosy world of fixed certainties is about to end as Martin's tale turns to one of political and personal tragedy. He can't possibly foresee the resounding defeat of the liberal government that will usher in a new era of bigotry and intolerance, nor appreciate the significance of the fact Dr Voerwoerd, architect of apartheid, is a neighbour. And what is he to make of dour, racist, Presbyterian Gordon his mother's husband-to-be, a man who seems determined to shatter the care-free world of the Donally's for good? Heaven Forbid is a wise, moving tale of innocence blighted and paradise lost; an unforgettable novel of childhood, family and the impact on a private world of a crucial moment in history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1944 and moved to London in 1975. He is the author of twelve novels including Kruger’s Alp, winner of the Whitbread Novel Award, and the Booker short-listed Serenity House. Hope's non-fiction includes a highly praised volume of autobiography, White Boy Running (1988) and a travel book, Moscow! Moscow! (1990), which won a PEN Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330367056
• ISBN 13: 9780330367059
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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