- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099443570
- ISBN-13: 978-0099443575
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.4 x 20 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,270,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I bought this immediately more because it was a novel written by a Guyanese and based in Guyana and I love all things Guyanese. You certainly would not need to know anything about the country to enjoy this book. It is an interestingly written insight into family, cultures, pyshcology and how distorted our view can be to life if we do not know or wish not to accept the truth. I liked the style of writing - short chapters often looking at the same incident through different peoples eyes.
So why only 3 stars? Mostly because I found the first 100 pages slow going. I think if it had not been a novel with the Guyana link I would have given up. However having persevered I am glad I continued to the end, I felt it got much better as the plot expanded to the family and situation immediately outside of the confines of the 4 walls of the house. On reflection when I reached the end I could understand why the author spent so much time in what seemed repetetive chapters about physical abuse of a young girl Bethany Bettany at the start of the book, but it did make me nearly give up reaching the end.
I would read something else by Fred D'Aguair.
So why only 3 stars? Mostly because I found the first 100 pages slow going. I think if it had not been a novel with the Guyana link I would have given up. However having persevered I am glad I continued to the end, I felt it got much better as the plot expanded to the family and situation immediately outside of the confines of the 4 walls of the house. On reflection when I reached the end I could understand why the author spent so much time in what seemed repetetive chapters about physical abuse of a young girl Bethany Bettany at the start of the book, but it did make me nearly give up reaching the end.
I would read something else by Fred D'Aguair.
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