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Mother & child (paperback)

South Africa

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain A great wind comes, an ancient tree splits in half and a bat, or is it an angel, enters the house where the mother and child sleep, and in an instant a world of relentless change, of spectacular consequences, of submerged memory, and uncanny intimations is set into motion. It is as if a veil has lifted, and what was once hidden is now in plain sight in all its splendor and terror as the mother and child are asked to bear enormous transformations and a terrible wisdom almost impossible to fathom. As the outside can no longer be separated from the inside, nor dream from reality, the mother and child continue, encountering along the way all kinds of characters and creatures as they move through a surreal world of grace and dread to the end. The bond between Mother and Child is untouchable, unrealizable until it is lost, and this meditation pushes the envelope, inching ever closer to touching it, to realizing it." Features Summary A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain A great wind comes... Author Carole Maso Publisher Counterpoint Release date 20130607 Pages 297 ISBN 1-61902-164-1 ISBN 13 978-1-61902-164-8

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Mother land (paperback)

South Africa (All cities)

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind. Features Summary A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious... Author Paul Theroux Publisher Hamish Hamilton Release date 20170601 Pages 528 ISBN 0-241-29353-7 ISBN 13 978-0-241-29353-9

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