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Produktdetails
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 500g
- ISBN-13: 9780141998732
- ISBN-10: 0141998733
- Artikelnr.: 70727783
A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book. Anyone who has ever tried to unravel the intertwined skeins of ancestry, sociology, music, geography and history will gape at Joyce's skill. On almost every page the reader gets a jolt, a palpable sensation of immersion in the disappeared world of peasantry. A central part of the book is Joyce's own family's peasant past. I too, like many people, am only two generations and one language away from these ancestors. Because the time of the peasants is still palpable there are clues and messages here for every fortunate reader who picks up this book Annie Proulx