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Riambel / Priya Hein.
Van Pelt Library PR6108.E463 R53 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hein, Priya N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mauritius--Fiction.
- Mauritius.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Domestic fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Indigo Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own - yet one which would have been all too familiar to her ancestors. Bewitched by a pair of green eyes and haunted by echoes, her life begins to mirror those of girls who have gone before her. In Riambel, Priya Hein invites us to protest, to rail against longstanding structures of class and ethnicity. She shows us a world of natural enchantment contrasted with violence and the abuse of power. This seemingly simple tale of servitude, seduction and abandonment blisters with a fierce sense of injustice.
- ISBN:
- 1911648497
- 9781911648499
- OCLC:
- 1348477355
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