Cherie Jones
Autor von How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Jones, Cherie Sue Ann
- Geburtstag
- 1974
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Barbados
- Geburtsort
- Barbados
- Ausbildung
- University of the West Indies (LLB)
Sheffield Hallam University (Master of Arts|Creative Writing)
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- Werke
- 4
- Mitglieder
- 376
- Beliebtheit
- #64,175
- Bewertung
- 3.5
- Rezensionen
- 15
- ISBNs
- 19
- Sprachen
- 2
The main characters - Lala, Adan, Tone - are all well created. The conditions of life, the poverty, the exploitations from multiple directions, the violence, are believable. The one portion of the book that seemed to stick out as perhaps out of place was that given to Mira Whalen's point of view as she struggled to deal with the murder of her husband in a robbery by Adan. I can see why it was included, Mira allowed a different socioeconomic point of view on the island to be represented, but it was out of the main current of the story and in a novel with plenty of misery, it seems an extraneous helping of it for the reader.
Overall, however, I found it fairly engrossing.… (mehr)