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A literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa. from the
best-selling, award-winning author of 'Evening'. The Lord's
Resistance Army, led by warlord Joseph Kony, has terrorised
northern Uganda for years, mutilating and murdering people as they
raid villages, kidnapping and raping children to expand Kony's
'family'. This is the fate in store for Esther. She is one of 139
students abducted from St Mary's School. When their headmistress
tracks them down she must accept a dreadful bargain; most of the
girls will be released, only if thirty remain with the rebels.
Esther is one of the thirty. And eventually she will have to learn
to live with all she has seen and done to survive. Jane is an
American writer, observing the glamour of Kenyan ex-pat life while
she waits for transport to the border. She has come to write about
what's happening to Uganda's children. But her fragile emotional
state will be sorely tried by her experiences. In unflinching
prose, Minot gives us razor-sharp portraits of two women struggling
to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable
ways. Intense and stunningly evocative, 'Thirty Girls' is Minot's
most ambitious novel yet.
'The bedspread was sloughing off the foot of the bed, the white sheets were as flat as paper. This is not what she'd pictured when she asked him over for lunch today. It really wasn't.'
Taking one single interlude ? two bodies entwined on a bed at midday, lovers rekindling an old affair ? Susan Minot's new novel chronicles a relationship from the alternating perspectives of a man and a women.
Thoughts cascade through Benjamin's mind, memories of the chest thumping moment when he first met Kay; of the night they shared under the mosquito net on the pink bed in Oaxaca; and of his fiancé, Vanessa, and the simple choices that face him. Memories unspool in Kay's mind too. She recalls the dangerous lure of Benjamin, the man who drove her scepticism away; the dread and the thrill of the first night they spent together; and now she asks herself, how has she let him slip back into her life like this?
Graphic, provocative and reminiscent of Hanif Kureishi ?Intimacy?, Susan Minot's new novel dissects a love affair in breathtaking detail.
Following the death of her mother, nineteen-year-old Lucy Harmon is
sent by her father to Italy to stay with old family friends and to
have her portrait done. She is eager to renew her acquaintance with
Niccolo Donati, the handsome young boy from a neighboring family
with whom she shared her first kiss on a visit four years earlier,
and anxious to solve a riddle left in her mother's diary--the
answer to which may change Lucy's life forever.
The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author
of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army
and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is
struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with
what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has
traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther
and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In
unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us
razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting
displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from
events that test them both in unimaginable ways.
With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of
Africa's beauty and its horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant
and ambitious novel yet.
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The setting is a New York apartment where two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men–this man in particular–but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fiancée. As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.
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