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S'està carregant… She Would Be King: A Novel (edició 2018)de Wayétu Moore (Autor)
Detalls de l'obraShe Would Be King de Wayétu Moore    No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. *3.5 stars* (  ) boldforbs | Jan 15, 2021 |  Great premise and intriguing characters. The writing was a little weak in some places. It illuminated some history I did not know anything about. The slipstream nature worked -- the combination of realism and fantasy was well done and appropriate. (  ) erikasolberg770 | Nov 19, 2020 | stunning. use of third person and the wind as narrator allows the story to open up wide. ( ) brontella | Feb 13, 2020 | This wasn't my jam. More fantastical magical realism than I have the patience for. I liked some of the writing and it's tone, other times it was a little schlocky. I did some skimming after the first half. (  ) reg_lt | Feb 7, 2020 | This is a blend of historical fiction and magical realism purporting to tell of the founding of the African country of Liberia. Gbessa is a native woman with red hair who is considered a witch, June Dey is an escaped American slave with a body inpenatrable by bullets, and Norman Aragon is the son of a white scientist and a Jamaican maroon (an African who has escaped slavery there) who has the ability to disappear. This was just too weird a book for me, although I did finish it. (  )1  riofriotex | Oct 2, 2019 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts help them salvage the tense relationship between the African American settlers and the indigenous tribes, as a new nation forms around them. -- Adapted from jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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