The Year of Thamar’s Book

The Year of Thamar’s Book

The Year of Thamar's Book

Lucy Beckett

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Editorial:
Gracewing Publishing
Año de edición:
2018
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9780852449356
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The Year of Thamar’s Book is set in the months from the spring of 2015 to thesummer of 2016. An elderly recluse living in a quiet village in Burgundydiscovers he is not as alone in the world as he has for many years assumed.His grandson, well-educated but ignorant, comes to the village to help the old manmake a book of the pile of chaotic manuscript that tells the story of a difficult,painful yet luminous life. As he writes, and listens, the young man learns a gooddeal, and begins to comprehend not only how French colonial history and thehorrors of war in Algeria formed and hurt his grandfather, but also how their lastingconsequences are still damaging his country and his own family. At the same timehe begins to understand his grandfather’s faith.

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