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by Peter Ho Davies (Author) "HELEN IS TELLING the colonel about the ship now, and Henry, sitting stiffly on the sectional sofa beside his wife, can't look up ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books (18 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862073236
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862073234
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,476,735 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Peter Ho Davies takes his title for this, his second collection of short stories, from EM Forster, writing on the "sad, strange irony" whereby children are not bound to parents as parents are to children-and "equal love" is never possible. Davies' dozen pieces all focus on this vexed parent-child bond but it is to his credit that we're never aware of his master plan. For among Davies's many talents is the ability to create each story in its own world, with its own tone, pace and style, its own reference points--even its own vocabulary. The opening, deeply moving account of a childless couple's alleged encounter with a UFO, for example, can signal its 1950s US setting with the quiet placing of just three, era-specific words: "conniption", "simonize" and "prophylactics". Entering the Chinese-American world, preparing one of their own for "The Next Life", forces a cross-cultural reconsideration of what death and "sonhood" mean.

By the end of this emotionally complex, thoughtful book, Forster's despondent certainty about unequal love seems a sweeping simplification. Although Davies's own background--Welsh-Chinese parentage, raised in Coventry, teaching in Michigan, resident in Cambridge--explains at least some of the range, it takes real talent to conjure the first-person of a young girl losing her milk teeth or an "unfit mother" recalling the smell of her stolen child's nappies. Davies won plaudits and prizes for his first collection, The Ugliest House in the World; Equal Love fully vindicates his early promise and should find him a whole host of new admirers.--Alan Stewart

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This collection of stories draws on the author's cross-cultural inheritance and ranges across different settings and backgrounds. The characters share a sense of displacement, as children of one century, adults of the next, caught between debts to their parents and what they owe their offspring.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A marvellous book with humanity at its heart., 25 Jul 2001
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This book will one day be recognised as a classic. The stories are remarkable for their affection. In almost all stories, Peter Ho Davies manages to communicate a love for his characters whether they be children or adults. I read the stories during the summer holiday and I so enjoyed them I felt compelled to write this review. More than the enjoyment factor though, these stories made me reflect on relationships. The story about the two brothers in the hospital ward was so well written I thought about it for a long time afterward. I found the humour of the ex-pat in America very funny but it had a slice of truth which flavoured the whole thing too. Well done to Peter Ho Davies. I hope he has a lot of success.
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