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Author_Fred D'aguiar
caribbean
carribean
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coming of age
contemporary
contemporary fiction
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family
genealogy fiction
guyana
literary fiction
post apocalyptic fiction
relationships
the longest memory
Product details
- ISBN 9781784705404
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all.
Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother refuses to leave her room. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all.
In Bethany, D'Aguiar has created both a loveable character and a symbol for the search of a nation to make itself whole. If Boundary is Guyana, then Bethany Bettany - a girl torn between two names - is the spirit of its people poised for flight.
Fred D'Aguiar is a poet and novelist. Born in 1960, he was raised in Guyana and London. He is currently Professor of English and Gloria D. Smith Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech State University. His first novel, The Longest Memory, won the 1994 Whitbread First Novel Award.
