Natives and Exotics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156032476)

In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.

Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.
The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.


Author: Jane Alison
ISBN-10: 0156032473
ISBN-13: 9780156032476
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2006
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.63d