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The White Family

Maggie Gee

Editora: Telegram Books

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Alfred White, a London park keeper, rules his home with a mixture of rigidity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. For years, Alfred's daughter Shirley and her black partner Elroy have avoided her comically ignorant younger brother Dirk, who admires his father and hates people of colour. But family ties are strong: when Alfred collapses on duty one day, all the children rush to be with him. The scene is set for bloodshed, forcing Alfred to make a climactic choice between justice and kinship.
Exploring the roots of racism in British society, The White Family traces what happens when a family reaches breaking point after years of love and hate, violence and polite silence.
This twentieth-anniversary edition includes an introduction by Bernardine Evaristo and a note from the author revealing the story behind this contemporary classic.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
'In this ground-breaking new novel, Maggie Gee bravely and uniquely explores the nuances of racism from the perspective of the perpetrators, within the context of family relationships. The resulting work is a brilliant depiction of British society at the end of the twentieth century.'--Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
'Outstanding … tender, sexy and alarming.' --Jim Crace
'Courageous, honest, powerfully real'-- The Times
'Gee is unflinching in her exploration of the causes and consequences of racism.'--The Observer
'The White Family points to new directions in British writing. Full of power and passion as well as some timely warnings … it deserves the widest possible readership.'--Literary Review
'A transcendent work.'-- Daily Telegraph
'A triumph of hope over despair, reconciliation over bitterness … an unashamedly contemporary novel that embraces the ideological and emotional chaos of our time.'--The Independent
 'An audacious, ground-breaking condition-of-England novel that delves for the roots of xenophobic hatred and violence in the English hearth … The White Family is finely judged and compulsively readable. Its head-on scrutiny of the uglier face of fair Albion is the more impressive for its rarity in British fiction.'--The Guardian

Disponível desde: 03/03/2022.

Comprimento de impressão: 432 páginas.

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