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Cargando... Drink the Skypor Lesley Krueger
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In this compelling novel, a Canadian couple moves to Rio de Janeiro, each partner on a separate quest. Todd Austen is a committed environmentalist, fighting to save the lands of an Amazon tribe threatened by a sinister mining conglomerate. Holly Austen is a painter obsessed by the great voyage of Charles Darwin, who once lived only miles from her crumbling Rio house. She is also the caring mother of two young sons who finds herself constantly struggling for balance - that great ecological ideal - which also motivates her pre-occupied and increasingly endangered husband. Drink the Sky is a beautifully written, rich and evocative novel that asks some very modern questions about inheritance. What world will we bequeath our children? And what kind of childhood do we give them, as we struggle to attain our ideals?(1999) No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Holly, artist and mother of 2, moves with her eco warrior husband to Rio. She lives in a house near the favela and tries to incorporate herself in the life there through her fellow artist, Tania. The arrival of Jay, an American composer and musician, pushes at the cracks appearing in her marriage, especially as Todd seems more concerned with the rainforest and Jay is younger and more attentive.
Through his work, Todd stumbles upon evidence of an uncontacted tribe who have attacted prospectors encroaching on their territory. This discovery sets the family on a a course that no one could have predicted.
The book has been well researched and includes important, and very current, topics, but I found a couple of plot twists to be affected, as if the author was more concerned with the ending than how she got there. This made parts of the book feel laboured and others rushed.
What I did like were the fantasies that Holly had whilst trying to paint Darwin and his travels, they were the most vivid parts of the book. (