Bo Caldwell
Autore di The Distant Land of My Father
Sull'Autore
Bo Caldwell has published short stories in numerous literary magazines. Her nonfiction writing includes a long-running series of personal essays in the "Washington Post Magazine". A former Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University, she lives in Northern California. "The Distant Land mostra altro of My Father" is her first novel. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: San Jose Library
Opere di Bo Caldwell
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1955
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Northern California, USA
- Relazioni
- Hansen, Ron (husband)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 758
- Popolarità
- #33,556
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 47
- ISBN
- 27
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
It is obvious to everyone that there is trouble on the horizon by 1941, but when Eve decides it is time to leave China, Joseph refuses to go with her. Thus, he is still present in Shanghai when the Japanese occupy the city and he begins a life that is separate from (and no doubt unimaginable for) his family.
The story is told from Anna’s view point and is made even more poignant because it rings so true in the way it affects her life and her own choices and decisions. It is a story about anger, about misunderstanding, about longing and about forgiveness. My eyes were not dry by the end of the novel, and I felt as if I could understand Anna’s enigmatic father, her mother who loved him despite his seeming faults, and Anna herself, who wanted the loves and attentions of a man whose choices only seemed to make for loneliness and separation.
My thanks to my good friend, Elyse, who told me many months ago that I should read this book. I bought it back then but let it languish on my Kindle for all this time. I am happy to have gotten to it at last.
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