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Natives And Exotics

by [Alison, Jane]

$17.70

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In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.

Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, 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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  • Harper Paperbacks Brand
  • Apr 10, 2006 Pub Date:
  • 9780156032476 ISBN-13:
  • 0156032473 ISBN-10:
  • 256.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8 in * 0.64 in * 5.25 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: