**A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction**On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he c
My Mother Is a River
โ Scribed by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
- Book ID
- 111764570
- Publisher
- Calisi Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780993238017
- ASIN
- B017EWHWL6
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love 'gone wrong from the start'. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of dementia, her daughter takes care of her and help her to rebuild her disintegrating identity. Day after day we learn about the characters of the extended family, the small village still without running water or electricity, in a 'bright and harsh' Abruzzo.
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