Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (US)
โ Scribed by Blythe, Ronald
- Book ID
- 108896935
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590178300
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โฆ Synopsis
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe's wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech.
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