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Bethany Bettany (Hardcover)

by Fred D'Aguiar (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (23 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701173823
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701173821
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,376,310 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Fred D'Aguiar is one of the most powered, vital and innovative writers we have.'


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A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all...Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother has not left her room since her grandfather disappeared. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all. Taunted, beaten, despised, she retreats into silence and learns to make herself invisible. As she quietly nurses her wounds, she eavesdrops on the conversation of the adults around her. Soon she is piecing together answers to the questions that haunt her. How did her father die? Why doesn't her mother answer her letters? And who is she? Fred D'Aguiar's wonderfully rich, evocative fourth novel is a book about borders - between people and between nations. In Bethany, he has created both a loveable character and a symbol for the search of a nation to make itself whole. If Boundary is Guyana, then Bethany Bettany - a girl torn between two names - is the spirit of its people poised for flight.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, worth reading after a slow start, 23 Mar 2007
By Joanne (Nicaragua) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bethany Bettany (Paperback)
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.
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