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D'aguiar Fred - Children Of Paradise A Novel - Paperback
D'aguiar Fred - Children Of Paradise A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Acclaimed novelist playwright and poet Fred D Aguiar has been short - listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in poetry for Bill of Rights his narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory. In this beautifully imagined work of literary fiction he returns to the territory of Jim Jones's utopian commune interweaving magical realism and shocking history into a resonant story of love faith oppression and sacrifice in which a mother and daughter attempt to break free with the help of an extraordinary gorilla. Joyce and her young daughter Trina are members of a utopian community ruled by a magnetic preacher. When Trina plays too near to the cage holding the commune's gorilla Adam the ape attacks and kills the child. Or so everyone believes. That night the preacher dramatically revives her an act that transforms Trina into a symbol of its charismatic leader's God - like power. Desperate to save her daughter from the preacher's control the outspoken Joyce attempts a daring escape a run for freedom aided by another prisoner the remarkable Adam. Told with a sweeping perspective in lush prose shimmering with magic and devastating in its clarity Children of Paradise is a brilliant and evocative exploration of oppression of both mind and body and of the liberating power of storytelling.
Title: Children Of Paradise A Novel
Author(s): D'aguiar Fred
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062277336
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/10/2015
Description: Acclaimed novelist playwright and poet Fred D Aguiar has been short - listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in poetry for Bill of Rights his narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory. In this beautifully imagined work of literary fiction he returns to the territory of Jim Jones's utopian commune interweaving magical realism and shocking history into a resonant story of love faith oppression and sacrifice in which a mother and daughter attempt to break free with the help of an extraordinary gorilla. Joyce and her young daughter Trina are members of a utopian community ruled by a magnetic preacher. When Trina plays too near to the cage holding the commune's gorilla Adam the ape attacks and kills the child. Or so everyone believes. That night the preacher dramatically revives her an act that transforms Trina into a symbol of its charismatic leader's God - like power. Desperate to save her daughter from the preacher's control the outspoken Joyce attempts a daring escape a run for freedom aided by another prisoner the remarkable Adam. Told with a sweeping perspective in lush prose shimmering with magic and devastating in its clarity Children of Paradise is a brilliant and evocative exploration of oppression of both mind and body and of the liberating power of storytelling.
Title: Children Of Paradise A Novel
Author(s): D'aguiar Fred
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062277336
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/10/2015