Sarah Thornhill
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Sarah er familien Thornhills yngste datter. Stemoren kaller henne viljesterk og sta, men den flotte Jack Langland elsker henne, og de to har aldri vært i tvil om at de er som skapt for hverandre.
Men det skjuler seg en godt bevart og ødeleggende hemmelighet i Sarahs familie, som kom til Australia på begynnelsen av 1800-tallet. Denne hemmeligheten gjør at Sarah må komme til bunns i spørsmålet om hvem hun selv og familien hennes virkelig er. En reise gjennom en mørk fortid venter henne.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The final novel in Grenville's trilogy about the British colonization of New South Wales continues her exploration of the savagery with which emancipated convict settlers ousted the indigenous peoples. The novel, which can be read as a stand-alone, is told from the point-of-view of Sarah, the youngest child of William Thornhill, the conflicted protagonist in The Secret River. From early childhood, Sarah senses her father's troubles, and eventually discovers their terrible source. Her disillusionment will highlight the novel's central question: is it possible to both thrive as an individual and sufficiently atone for the sins of one's ancestors? Sarah's affair with her brother's closest friend, whose mother was an Aborigine, is squashed by Sarah's wicked stepmother, more clich than character. Sarah then marries an English Protestant from Ireland, whose background Grenville exploits nicely: usurpers can be found on any continent. Lyrical passages light up the narrative, and Grenville's profound themes make it tempting to ignore the novel's flaws. Sarah lacks the complexity and credibility of protagonists in the earlier novels, and Grenville postpones the reveal of the family's secrets for too long, perplexingly, as they were already revealed in The Secret River.
