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Lädt ... What Was Promised (2014)von Tobias Hill
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Following the relationships between families that live in tenements on Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, the story starts in 1948 amid the bomb sites left behind after the Second World War. The outlooks for the families are contrasted, with some content to earn enough to keep their families together, while others are more ambitious. Their backgrounds are also very varied, including refugees from Nazi Europe, recent immigrants from the Commonwealth and locals of many years standing. Hill’s writing captures their struggles to provide and to attain their aims, but at differing costs to the families. Then a life-changing event leads to a jump forward to 1968 and an exploration of how this event affected the families. Hill explores in a moving and sympathetic novel, the price that people may pay for pursuing their dreams while ignoring their family and friends. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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London in the aftermath of war- children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; Solly and Dora Lazarus, too, are strangers in a strange land, struggling to belong even as they try to make sense of their past; and Michael and Mary Lockhart take with both hands all that the world owes them, wherever it leads them, whatever the cost. In the street markets and tenements of Bethnal Green the three families live and work together in uneasy harmony, until Michael shatters the balance between them, his hunger for betterment changing the courses of all their lives over decades and generations. Reaching across forty years and capturing a city and a people in a time of tumultuous change, What Was Promised is a breathtaking novel by a master storyteller. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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