The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Autor Kim Edwardsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2007
Families have secrets they hide even from themselves...
It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever.
For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.
As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.
'Crafted with language so lovely you have to reread the passages just to be captivated all over again . . . this is simply a beautiful book' Jodi Picoult
'I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language' Sue Monk Kidd, author of the best-selling,The Secret Life of Bees
Kim Edwards is the author of the short-story collectionThe Secrets of the Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. Her second novel,The Lake of Dreams,is available from Penguin. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141030142
ISBN-10: 0141030143
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141030143
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Kim
Edwards
is
the
author
of
the
short-story
collectionThe
Secrets
of
the
Fire
King,
which
was
an
alternate
for
the
1998
PEN/Hemingway
Award,
and
has
won
the
Whiting
Award
and
the
Nelson
Algren
Award.
She
is
an
assistant
professor
of
English
at
the
University
of
Kentucky.
Recenzii
Crafted
with
language
so
lovely
you
have
to
reread
the
passages
just
to
be
captivated
all
over
again
.
.
.
this
is
simply
a
beautiful
book
I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language
I loved this riveting story with its intricate characters and beautiful language