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The Welsh Girl: A Novel»rank: 73669par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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Welsh Girl»rank: 73669par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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The Ugliest House in the World: Stories»rank: 73669par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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Equal Love»rank: 1150837par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A collection need yield only one really great story to be, itself, great, and Peter Ho Davies's Equal Love offers such a story--the deceptively low-key 'Cakes of Baby.' A couple--he's lndian, she's white--spend Thanksgiving with the wife's family. Nothing much happens. The husband, Sam, plays with a toddler, the wife, Laura, argues with her sister. But Davies uses the short-story writer's most hackneyed milieu--the holiday get-together--to tell a thoroughly fresh tale about class. A family can encompass both good and bad luck, as the author telegraphs neatly ... |
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The Ugliest House in the World: Stories»rank: 625904par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A collection need yield only one really great story to be, itself, great, and Peter Ho Davies's Equal Love offers such a story--the deceptively low-key 'Cakes of Baby.' A couple--he's lndian, she's white--spend Thanksgiving with the wife's family. Nothing much happens. The husband, Sam, plays with a toddler, the wife, Laura, argues with her sister. But Davies uses the short-story writer's most hackneyed milieu--the holiday get-together--to tell a thoroughly fresh tale about class. A family can encompass both good and bad luck, as the author telegraphs neatly ... |
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Welsh Girl»rank: 625904par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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The Welsh Girl: A Novel»rank: 123930par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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The Welsh Girl»rank: 123930par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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Das häßlichste Haus der Welt.»rank: 123930par: Peter Ho Davies
Chroniques et points de vue: :Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. lt carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWll P0W camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The P0W camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only ... |
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