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But the Saint-Pierres' existences--like those of everyone else in the locality--are about to fracture as the Revolution gathers momentum and the shockwaves from Paris push out into the provinces. The book's epigraph: "Small change, small change"-- Napoleon Bonaparte's comment on surveying the dead on a battlefield--signals this to be a novel of small people caught up in big events. And, indeed, Michelle de Kretser takes us from the co-operative and optimistic start of the Revolution as it manifests in Montsignac, through factionalisation, fanaticism and Terror, denunciations and betrayals, through love and loyalty to a quiet, damaged aftermath, with a vivid cast of surprising heroes, unexpected villains and not-quite-innocent bystanders.
The Rose Grower is a hypnotically engrossing novel that illuminates the biggest of issues with the lightest, most fragrant of touches. --Lisa Gee --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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"A meditative tale of unrequited love--De Kretser's writing is by turns poetic, metaphorical and delicately elliptical, capable of evoking a mood or a change in direction in the subtlest of ways." - "Independent on Sunday"
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Occasionally I felt the author didn't make it clear which character was speaking, and sometimes I had to re-read to be sure I had understood what she meant. It is a book that demands concentration because she presents her story economically. Nevertheless, her writing is so very good that it was no hardship to read a passage twice through.
A passing knowledge of the course of the French Revolution would be useful before starting the book because the author immerses us in the period rather than treating readers as outsiders, so events are not always immediately explained.
I strongly recommend this book, and hope more by this author will be published.
(I'm not the sort of person who needs everything spelled out a-la-hollywood style, so it was a genuine frustration!)
I enjoyed the premise of the book and the characters, and didn't realise that post revolution pitted friend against friend to such an extent, so that opened my eyes.
It wouldn't stop me reading other works from the author, but won't be re-reading this one I'm afraid.
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