River Sing Me Home: THE unmissable fiction debut of 2023 - witness one mother's remarkable journey to find her stolen children
Autor Eleanor Sheareren Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2023
Observăm că genul ficțiunii istorice capătă o nouă dimensiune în paginile romanului River Sing Me Home, unde Eleanor Shearer respectă rigoarea documentării, dar subversează așteptările clasice despre „marea istorie” pentru a se concentra pe o odisee intimă și viscerală. Suntem de părere că forța acestui debut rezidă în contrastul dintre momentul istoric — anul 1834, când sclavia este oficial abolită în teritoriile britanice — și realitatea crudă de pe teren, unde libertatea este doar un concept juridic golit de sens pentru o mamă ai cărei copii rămân pierduți în sistemul plantațiilor. Povestea o urmărește pe Rachel, care refuză să accepte „libertatea” fără cei cinci copii ai săi vânduți: Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane și Mercy. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The River Where Blood Is Born, de Sandra Jackson-Opoku, prin modul în care explorează rădăcinile și legăturile de sânge ce traversează generații, deși ritmul lui Shearer este mult mai cinematic, purtându-ne rapid prin câmpurile de trestie din Barbados până în pădurile dese din Guyana Britanică. Credem că scriitura este una a rezilienței; nu este doar un roman despre traumele trecutului, ci o celebrare a spiritului uman care refuză să fie frânt. Spre deosebire de alte titluri care se concentrează pe mecanismele sclaviei, aici accentul cade pe căutarea identității și a sensului de „acasă” într-o lume care încearcă să te dezumanizeze. Este o lectură care recuperează voci uitate, transformând o hartă a durerii într-una a speranței.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1035405458
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 151 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: John Murray Languages
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o ficțiune istorică profundă, capabilă să combine drama personală cu o perspectivă rară asupra Caraibelor post-emancipare. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai bogată a luptei pentru demnitate, totul într-o proză care curge cu forța unui fluviu. Este un volum esențial pentru cei care au apreciat perspectivele materne din literatura contemporană și vor să descopere o voce nouă, deja recunoscută la nivel internațional.
Despre autor
Eleanor Shearer este o scriitoare britanică aflată la debut, a cărei pasiune pentru istoria Caraibelor este adânc înrădăcinată în propria moștenire familială. Cu studii aprofundate în politică și istorie, Shearer a petrecut mult timp cercetând arhivele și vizitând locurile descrise în River Sing Me Home pentru a asigura autenticitatea narațiunii. Munca sa se concentrează pe explorarea legăturilor dintre trecutul colonial și identitatea modernă. Succesul fulminant al primului său roman, selectat în cluburi de carte prestigioase precum cel al Good Morning America, o plasează deja printre cele mai promițătoare nume ale ficțiunii istorice actuale.
Descriere scurtă
9781472291363
(Also available in ebook and audio)
Notă biografică
Eleanor Shearer is a mixed-race writer and the granddaughter of Windrush generation immigrants. She splits her time between London and Ramsgate so that she never has to go too long without seeing the sea. For her Master's degree in Politics at the University of Oxford, Eleanor studied the legacy of slavery and the case for reparations. Her fieldwork was in St. Lucia and Barbados. The inspiration for River Sing Me Home came to Eleanor after she discovered a tiny footnote in an exhibition she was attending about the Windrush. Mothers in slavery in the British colonies lived in constant fear of their children being sold. When the Slavery Abolition Act came in in the 1830s, it didn't mean freedom, so many mothers went in search of their lost children.
Descriere
Powerful, moving and redemptive, RIVER SING ME HOME tells of a mother's desperate search to find her stolen children and her freedom.
'A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love' JEANETTE WINTERSON
We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to us, those names on our lips.
Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. These are the names of her children. The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations.
The faces Rachel cannot forget. It's 1834, and the law says her people are now free. But for Rachel freedom means finding her children, even if the truth is more than she can bear.
With fear snapping at her heels, Rachel keeps moving. From sunrise to sunset, through the cane fields of Barbados to the forests of British Guiana and on to Trinidad, to the dangerous river and the open sea. Only once she knows their stories can she rest. Only then can she finally find home.
'Eleanor Shearer is a remarkable writer and brings this story of a mother's courage to the page with compassion, tenderness and pitch-perfect prose' NATASHA LESTER
'Eleanor Shearer bursts onto the literary scene with...an extraordinary odyssey of pain, love, and homecoming... A haunting and powerful debut' KATE QUINN
'An immersive and spellbinding debut reminding us that the human spirit will always reach for freedom' CHERYL A. HEAD
Recenzii
Good Housekeeping
'A book you will not forget for a long time'
Glamour
Rachel is searching for her children.
The five who survived, only to be sold to other plantations. The faces she cannot forget.
It is 1834, and the law says her people are now free. But for Rachel freedom means finding her children, even if the truth is more than she can bear.
With fear snapping at her heels, Rachel keeps moving. From sunrise to sunset, through the cane fields of Barbados to the forests of British Guiana and on to Trinidad, to the dangerous river and the open sea. Only once she knows their stories can she rest.
Only then can she finally find home.
'A gripping, redemptive story of survival and hope' Platinum
'Shearer brings this story of a mother's courage to the page with compassion and tenderness'
Natasha Lester
'Compulsive... steeped in atmosphere' 'Powerful and moving'
Mail on Sunday Woman & Home
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Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so assured and so powerful you can't believe it's a debut novel. RIVER SING ME HOME is just such a book . . . Eleanor Shearer is a remarkable writer and she brings this story of a mother's courage to the page with compassion, tenderness and pitch-perfect prose
An extraordinary odyssey of pain, love, and homecoming . . . RIVER SING ME HOME is a haunting and powerful debut
A strong and beautiful novel that stares into the face of brutality and the heart of love
Epic and lyrical, a story about love and the power it brings us
A searing debut full of love, loss, and the shadows of the past . . . Heartbreaking, hopeful, and unforgettable. Both a powerful ode to the endless depths of a mother's love and an important meditation on what freedom really means, this is the kind of book that will stay with readers for years to come
An extraordinary and gripping debut. Rachel's love for her children resonates through each page as she fights for her freedom and theirs. A must-read!
A powerful story, beautifully told. Shearer skilfully depicts the cruelty of the British slave trade, contrasted with one mother's indomitable love for her children, and her burning will to live. An empathic, elegantly rendered and deeply humane novel
A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined
RIVER SING ME HOME is a masterclass in how to speak of unspeakable things. A beautiful read
RIVER SING ME HOME slices you open . . . and knits you back up again. A powerful account of love, loss, defiance and the lengths to which a mother will go in order to make herself and her family whole again. Breathtaking
Lyrical, heartbreaking, thought-provoking . . . A book about love, motherhood and survival that will stay with you long after you've finished it'
I absolutely loved this book and Eleanor Shearer's lyrical prose kept me gripped as the story moved from Barbados to Demerara and Trinidad . . . a beautifully written debut
Propulsive . . . This compelling premise of a mother in search of her children powers a moving and dynamic novel. The pacing is swift, and Shearer writes in clear, energetic prose. There is an accessibility to the language that is refreshing; it buoys the narrative, giving us intimate access to a complex period in history
An immersive debut . . . the heart of the novel lies in its celebration of motherhood and female resilience. A tender exploration of one woman's courage in the face of unbelievable cruelty
The beautifully written depiction of a mother longing for her children makes this transcendent
Early readers of RIVER SING ME HOME are evangelical about this story . . . Full of love and compassion, this will be everywhere next year
A powerful, gripping and poetic novel about the strength of a mother's love
Such a glorious and compelling story
A cracking debut
Hugely profound, hopeful and emotive this is written in lyrical prose that demonstrates Shearer's mastery of language
Action-packed, emotionally demanding, richly described, the novel paints an extraordinary portrait of motherly love and hope . . . a thoroughly compelling read
An intense and absorbing debut
River Sing Me Home is a fine testament to the women who inspired this debut
Lyrical, heart-wrenching and so well crafted
A triumph of tragedy and hope
An extraordinary tale of fearlessness, passion, motherly love and hope
This debut novel does exactly what I want historic fiction to do - teach me something while telling me a good story
The most moving, beautiful, heart-breaking yet hopeful book I've read this year.
A novel which explored, with courage, care and capability, the illusory nature of freedom at a critical point in West Indian history. I was riveted by Rachel's story and it is a testament to Eleanor's craft that I felt every fraught element of Rachel's journey to finding her children right along with her. Like the River of its title, this novel sings . . . a beautiful debut