translated by RELEASE DATE: Jan. 21, 2020. Though gripping, even moving at times, the novel doesn’t do justice to the solemn history from which it is drawn.
Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish.
A trifle facile, but this decades-spanning drama is readable and engrossing throughout.
Bennett keeps all these plot threads thrumming and her social commentary crisp. It calls up Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, the book's 50-year-old antecedent. All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished; a reader can guess what is coming.
When they reunite in France as penniless refugees, Roser has survived a harrowing flight across the Pyrenees while heavily pregnant and given birth to the son of Victor’s brother Guillem, killed at the Battle of the Ebro. There, another nightmarish scenario unfolds: Cilka, now 18, and the other women in her hut are routinely raped at night by criminal-class prisoners with special “privileges”; by day, the near-starving women haul coal from the local mines in frigid weather. Stella, ensconced in White society, is shedding her fur coat. A Long Petal In The Sea opened in the late 1930s during the Spain Civil War where Spain is being ripped apart.
GENERAL FICTION, by translated by & The scene in which Stella adopts her White persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. In the second half, Jude spars with her cousin Kennedy, Stella's daughter, a spoiled actress. The information about A Long Petal of the Sea shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.
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As in Tattooist, the writing itself is workmanlike at best and often overwrought.
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