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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It took me a little while to get into this book. It's set in two time periods, the present and during the Boer War in South Africa in 1901. When I think of concentration camps, I really only know about the camps during the holocaust. I knew nothing about the Boer War. This is a very ambitious book and really an impressive debut novel. You do have to hang in there for a little bit to become fully invested but it's worth it. We start out in 1901 where experiments are being conducted on the Boer prisoners. They end in chaos, but two children survive, Benjamin and Tessa. A hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable, Alet Berg is reassigned to Unie, a very small town, where she discovers the body of a burned woman. The crime leads her into the past which includes her father who was a high ranking police official under the apartheid regime and the two children left behind in that concentration camp. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"At once a shocking, unputdownable thriller and a brilliantly imagined journey through South Africa's troubled history, The Monster's Daughter is one of the most original and exciting debuts since Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. December 2010. A disgraced young constable named Alet Berg is reassigned to the sleepy provincial town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a young woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads Alet into her country's violent past--a past that includes her father, a high-ranking police official who may have played a sinister role during the long, brutal apartheid regime. A hundred years earlier, at the height of the Boer War, a doctor conducts a series of vicious experiments near a British concentration camp, where he intends to breed a new master race. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. And they are not like other children. The horrors of South Africa's history and the tensions of its present converge in Michelle Pretorius's epic debut, which weaves present and past into a hugely suspenseful, masterfully plotted thriller with echoes of the fantastical. A novel that calls to mind Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls and Tana French's The Secret Place, The Monster's Daughter will surprise and satisfy you all the way up to its explosive conclusion"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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