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The Butterfly Lampshade (Hardcover)
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The Butterfly Lampshade (Hardcover)
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List price R619
Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
You Save R83 (13%)
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______________________________________ LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN
STEIN BOOK AWARD '[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel . .
. Its particular quality of stillness hums with so much mystery and
intensity that the book never feels static . . . ' New York Times
'The Butterfly Lampshade is an unflinching, empathetic portrayal of
a childhood touched by mental illness. As always, Aimee Bender's
respect for the child and the child within translates into wisdom
and magic on the page.' Jing-Jing Lee, author of How We Disappeared
On the night her mother is taken to a mental hospital after a
psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her
babysitter. Next to the couch on which she's sleeping, there is a
lamp that catches her eye, its shade adorned with butterflies. When
she wakes, Francie sees a dead butterfly floating in a glass of
water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years
later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two
other incidents - her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a
school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her
recall is exact: she is sure these things were real. But despite
her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories have over
her, and with what they say about her place in the world. Told in
lush, lilting prose, The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and
heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of
the material world, and of a broken love between mother and child.
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