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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the complete review, go to https://kindredconnection.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/blue-desert/. ![]() The story moves back and forth 50 years from her time in the Sahara to 1970's London, with her British family finding out her secrets and Alice realizing what her family experienced during her absence. Somewhat surprising that it took 50 years to discuss. Alice experiences some betrayal and violence in the desert, but not at the hand of her lover, Abu. For me this was just a most engrossing story, elevated by the ending. I was sorry to see the story end. ![]() ![]() The story has two narratives. There is the past when young Alice lives among the Tuareg during World War I. In the present, she is an elderly woman, married to an important government minister, and an artist. When she receives a telegram telling her that Abu has died and her progeny will be arriving, she has a week to recall her past and tell her husband. She’s not much of a communicator. Blue Desert is well-written and has a beautiful and powerful sense of place. You can feel the heat, the scorching sun, and the harsh winds. In England, you can feel the cool, damp, moist air. There is also the contrast between how free Alice feels in the desert and how constrained she feels at home and in London. Because it is well-written, I perhaps rate it higher than it deserves since this is really just a more literary, highly-polished tired tropes including “Abduction Is Love” and “Victim Falls for Rapist.” These are not spoilers, we learn Abu was her lover in the first chapter. My issue is that this is presented as a romantic relationship, that he is in love with her and waits for her to turn to him. However, she is also his only safety, protecting her from other men and the decidedly sketchy Englishmen they encounter. When she does not ask for their help, Abu interprets that as her choice to stay with him. Nah, he was safety and yes, she falls in love with him, but isn’t that what happens when you have no choice? She was still a child. It was rape and this book romanticized it. When I wonder why women are always defending sexual predators, I think of how common it is that rape is presented as romance in romance and literature rather than violent acts of asserting power. It made me feel angry with myself for liking the writing. Blue Desert will be released on April 20th. I received an ARC of Blue Desert from the publisher through LibraryThing. Blue Desert at Rootstock Celia Jeffries author site https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/blue-desert-by-celia-jeff... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Blue Desert is the story of Alice George, a headstrong young British woman and her life among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as they always had. A matrilineal society in which the men are veiled and the women hold property-a world in which anything can happen-it is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara. Her silence about that life is finally broken sixty years later when she receives a telegram announcing Abu has died in the desert. "Who is Abu?" her husband asks. "My lover," she replies. Thus, begins a weeklong journey of revelation as Alice lays bare her secrets. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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