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October

Autor: Zoe Wicomb
Czyta: Lisette Lecat
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Mercia Murray is a woman of fifty-two years who has been left. Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-five years, Mercia returns to her homeland of South Africa to find her family overwhelmed by alcoholism and secrets. Poised between her life in Scotland and her life in South Africa, she recollects the past with a keen sense of irony as she searches for some idea of home.

In Scotland, her life feels unfamiliar; her apartment sits empty. In South Africa, her only brother is a shell of his former self, pushing her away. And yet in both places she is needed, if only she could understand what for. Plumbing the emotional limbo of a woman who is isolated and torn from her roots, October is a stark and utterly compelling novel about the contemporary experience of an intelligent immigrant, adrift among her memories and facing an uncertain middle age.

©2014 Zoë Wicomb (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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A very slow moving story but beautifully written and well read. I had heard other books narrated by Lisette Lecat and enjoyed her voice and switch of accents which brought life into the story. I had to speed it up ever so slightly.
The story itself is very simple, very South African with it's typical everyday life and problems often stemming back to it's history, The effects Apartheid has left behind on a "colored" family from Kliprand in the Cape. A family drama with a melancholic touch, the accounts of a lost love and lack of love. Very detailed accounts of the region and its fauna and flora, the effects of inequality and alcoholism and a childhood overshadowed by family abuse. No suspense and sad at times. An abridged version would have suited me fine.

Beautiful but slow moving

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