This novel goes back and forth between the familiar world of Augusta and the huge life experience of Parfait.
The narrators are both fascinating. There is so much of British culture in Augusta's life contrasted with the harsh and short childhood of Parfait.
I wanted to go on reading. Do their world's meet? The work is at once funny, then sad. I think we can all identify with Augusta's confusion at the adult world and British childhood is well conveyed. I found Augusta's parents so recognisable. Parfait's experience of genocide is not at all gratuitous. The novel really begins at the start of the millenium, a time of hope for new beginnings. The reader is reminded so evocatively of that time.
Thoroughly recommend.
The narrators are both fascinating. There is so much of British culture in Augusta's life contrasted with the harsh and short childhood of Parfait.
I wanted to go on reading. Do their world's meet? The work is at once funny, then sad. I think we can all identify with Augusta's confusion at the adult world and British childhood is well conveyed. I found Augusta's parents so recognisable. Parfait's experience of genocide is not at all gratuitous. The novel really begins at the start of the millenium, a time of hope for new beginnings. The reader is reminded so evocatively of that time.
Thoroughly recommend.