Private Property
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European Women Writers
ISBN-10
0803234805
ISBN-13
9780803234802
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Imprint
Bison Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2011
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
240 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.20 x 1.30 cms
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Based loosely on Paule Constant's own experiences, Private Property is at once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters.
When Tiffany Murano's parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural world, the people, and the animals she knows and loves. Behind the walls of the Convent of the Slaughterhouse Ladies, Tiffany, whom readers met in Paule Constant's award-winning first novel, Ouregano, leads a life cut off from the world, a life of immutable and ironically secular ritual. She finds solace only in visits to her grandmother's nearby farm, which becomes a sanctuary, paradisial in its isolation. But it is only a matter of time before this magical world is threatened. Based loosely on Constant's own experiences, Private Property is at once deeply moving and intellectually exacting, an exploration of identity, home, and the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters.
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