BETHANY BETTANY by Fred D'Aguiar ( 9781784705404 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

BETHANY BETTANY

By:

Fred D'Aguiar

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1784705403

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9781784705404

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

25 July, 2016

Pages:

320

Description:

Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother refuses to leave her room. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all.

Synopsis:

A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all. Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother refuses to leave her room. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all. In Bethany, D'Aguiar has created both a loveable character and a symbol for the search of a nation to make itself whole. If Boundary is Guyana, then Bethany Bettany - a girl torn between two names - is the spirit of its people poised for flight.

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