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A carregar... The Nowhere Child (2018)por Christian White
   Books Read in 2018 (1,965) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) punkinmuffin | Apr 30, 2024 |   ) JennyPocknall | Oct 19, 2023 | Christian White's debut novel won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. That's a big recommendation, considering the phenomenal success of previous winners such as The Rosie Project and The Dry, so I was eager to read this one. Kim Leamy is a Melbourne photographer who teaches at the local TAFE. One day she is accosted by an American man who insists that she is his long-lost sister, who disappeared when she was two years old. Initially dismissive, Kim is gradually convinced that there is something to this, and travels with him to the USA to come to grips with this strange gap in her past. The story unfolds with two parallel arcs telling of Sammy's disappearance and the subsequent investigation, along with a present-day narrative about Kim digging into her past, and what she finds. Personally I found the arc dealing with the crime more interesting and engaging than the arc set in the present. There are some clever twists in the plot, but not entirely unanticipated. I did think that the final act was a bit weak and far-fetched, but i still think that this is a very good crime novel. ( ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |  ) Tess_W | Mar 21, 2023 | ) JonquilA | Feb 14, 2023 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went's daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl's birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart. Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abduction, a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul. -- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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