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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Same Earth (originale 2008; edizione 2008)di Kei Miller (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. "In a village like Watergate everything is seen, every movement known" By sally tarbox on 23 June 2017 Format: Kindle Edition Not a must-read, but an engaging work set in a Jamaican village. The narrative opens with an educated local woman deciding - angrily - to once again leave her hometown. We learn a little of her recent history: her well-meant initiative to start a Neighbourhood Watch scheme given short-shrift by the preacher ("Nobody can watch you like Jesus"); a flood; an unrequited love for a local Rastaman... Over the rest of the book, in a series of short stories, the author introduces us to the people who make up the village. He takes us back to Imelda's childhood, her experiences in London; and relates incidents in the lives of her neighbours, from children's pranks to religious extremism; a stand-offish gay accountant, an honest washerwoman... little incidents that go to build a picture of the place. There are some quite poetic passages, thus of a mother whose son is wrongly jailed: " Tessa learned once again, as every human will learn a hundred times during his or her lifetime, about the many chambers of the heart where things too awful to touch or utter or look at can be stored. It is not that she forgot about Zero, but that she took her grief and folded it neatly like a tablecloth, placed it in a drawer and closed it. When she was alone at nights, she would sometimes open that drawer and put her hands in, run her palms across the fabric of her grief. But she did not take it outside any more." An enjoyable read, probably *3.5. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When Imelda Richardson leaves the small village of Watersgate, Jamaica, armed only with one small suitcase, she is doing so for the second time. One of the throng of young Jamaicans who left the island after the devastating hurricane of 1974, Imelda's journey has taken her to England, to the home of ganja-growing rebel Purletta Johnson, the arms of fake Northerner Ozzie, and a law degree. But when her mother dies Imelda returns to Watersgate, choosing Jamaica over England. 1983 is still a couple of years shy of the great dancehall explosion in which artists like Shabba Ranks would sing how he "loved punany bad," and the village is still dominated by the Evangelical church and the thundering voice of Pastor Braithwaite. When Tessa Walcott's panties are stolen--and in the absence of Perry Mason--she and Imelda decide to set up a Neighborhood Watch. But they haven't counted on Pastor Braithwaite and the crusading zeal of Evangelist Millie. As a Pentecostal fervor sweeps through the village, the tensions between old and new come to a head. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The Same Earth is the debut novel by award-winning Jamaican author Kei Miller. Set in Watergate, a fictional village in St Mary, Jamaica, the story weaves around the lives and intrigues of all the villagers, in particular Imelda, the unexpected, miracle daughter of teacher Sarah and Desmond Richardson. At the beginning of the story Imelda is approached by Tessa Walcott, the local washerwoman, to solve the mystery of her stolen panties. Imelda decides to start a Neighborhood Watch, but faces the condemnation of vituperous zealot Preacher Douglas Braithwaite. The story switches between characters in the village, and between past and present time settings, cleverly connecting all of the people in a bright and humorous tale. It shifts back to Imelda’s emigration to England after the hurricane in 1974, when she stays with the dynamic hash-smoking Purletta Johnson and becomes entangled with a pompous wordsman. She returns to Jamaica after studying a law degree and struggles to fit back into the village of gossip and religious fervour. A village peopled by the likes of Deaconess Jennifer, who prides herself on her virginity and righteousness but beats her adopted son, and Evangelist Milly who whips the villagers into an outraged homophobia and zeal.
This book is bright and beautifully told with humour and wit. I loved the audio narration by Clare Benedict. A five star read, minus half a star for the abrupt and non-ending ending. ( )