The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a
high-flying Danish career woman from the international finance
sector whose work is her life, and the young teenager Mariama, two
women whose circumstances are completely different. Ana first meets
Mariama selling snacks on a beach in Gambia, and the girl gradually
becomes a substitute for the family she has never had. The novel
moves to Copenhagen and then to London as Ana brings Mariama to
Europe to be educated; the girl finds the cultural shock and living
with Ana intensely difficult, whilst Ana's obsession with her leads
to her own carefully controlled life descending into chaos. The
story depicts the gulf between European affluence and Third World
poverty; it explores our dependence on money, our need to be in
control in every situation, and the problematic relationship
between sponsor or donor and recipient. The scene moves from
colourful depictions of life in a luxury hotel in Africa, cheek by
jowl with desperate poverty, to elite designer flats in Copenhagen,
and finally the bustling multicultural community on the streets of
London. This novel from 2011 is the latest by the prize-winning
Danish author Kirsten Thorup. Her most well-known works are her
series of four novels about little Jonna from the provinces, which
are also about growing up into the rapidly-changing Danish society
of the late twentieth century; and Bonsai (2000), an unflinching
account of the scourge of Aids and its devastating effect on an
ordinary family.
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