Anticipation (eBook)

Tanya Moir (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
256 Seiten
Random House New Zealand (Verlag)
978-1-77553-202-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This rich and darkly funny novel is about family history and the risk and power of knowledge. I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water. Janine s mother had an obsession: her ancestry. But what she uncovered was a colourful assortment of characters and their penchant for cruelty and abuse. When her mother dies, Janine continues the genealogical search. She buys a run-down house on a tiny island, where she sits and writes up the stories of her forebears, worrying whether the damaging genes have been passed on. Meanwhile the builder, Jake, is erecting a jetty for her, and it is his presence, along with Janine s discovery about her grandfather, that might offer her hope of redemption. Startlingly original and superbly written, Tanya Moir s surprising new book asks how much we really want to know about our futures and our pasts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-77553-202-X / 177553202X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77553-202-6 / 9781775532026