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S'està carregant… Le Livre des secrets (1988 original; edició 2015)de Fiona Kidman (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Book of Secrets de Fiona Kidman (1988)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Une vie? une double vie? Une réclusion ou bien une malédiction? Il est certain que cette "sorcière" ne se laissera pas oublier facilement. ( ) Une histoire assez fascinante, tirée de faits réels, celle d'une communauté d'Ecossais souffrant de la famine et de la misère, qui, en 1817 quitte tout pour suivre un certain Mc Leod, homme au charisme puissant qui fustige l'église écossaise qu'il trouve trop "molle" et ce pays qui lui semble plonger This story backgrounds the arrival of the Scottish settlers in Waipu, Northland NZ. We follow their voyage from Scotland through the diaries of Isabella MacQuarrie, narrated by her granddaughter, Maria. A group of Scottish migrants left the Highlands of Scotland with charismatic and domineering, Norman McLeod, travelling first to Novia Scotia, then on to Cape Breton, then Australia before finally settling in Waipu. They hold Scottish celebrations there annually still and this book goes some way to telling of the trials and tribulations they suffered on the way. Fiona Kidman brings to life the experiences of the women especially, in this tale of what really amounted to an early religious sect. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him from Scotland in 1817 to found a settlement in Nova Scotia, then subsequently to New Zealand via Australia. Their incredible journeys actually happened, and in this winner of the New Zealand Book Awards, Fiona Kidman breathes life and contemporary relevance into the facts by creating a remarkable fictional story of three women entangled in the migrations - Isabella, her daughter Annie and granddaughter Maria. McLeod's harsh leadership meant that anyone who ran counter to him had to live a life of secrets. The 'secrets' encapsulated the spirit of these women in their varied reactions to McLeod's strict edicts and connect the past to the present and future. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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