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Baggage Reclaimed - A Biographical Novel (Paperback)
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Baggage Reclaimed - A Biographical Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R230
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In his family, "Let's not talk about the past," has always meant
"Let's not talk about anything at all." But now in his middle age,
Alasdair has a burning need to know about his parents' lives in
Ceylon and the way in which his father died. So when, nearing the
end of her life, his mother gives him a bundle of wartime letters,
he soaks up every word, piecing together the glamorous expat lives
of his parents and his own childhood, even returning to Ceylon to
see where his father is buried. But while much is revealed in the
letters, much is concealed too and Alasdair is rocked by what he
finds out. Why did his mother never mention his older sister? Why,
to the very end, had she not talked about her past? Why were the
circumstances surrounding the death of his father so mysterious?
And what exactly had happened to her in South Africa during World
War Two? Baggage Reclaimed is in turn comic and tragic, inspiring
and heart-breaking, a powerful evocation of the recent colonial
past and a richly engaging story of discovery.
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