Clara's Heart

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480413481

<DIV><DIV><B>A unique bond forms between a twelve-year-old and a Jamaican housekeeper in this moving novel that is &ldquo;a work of art&rdquo; (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> The basis for the beloved film starring Whoopi Goldberg, this prize-winning novel by the author of <I>Nightswimmer </I>and <I>Cloudland </I>charts the profound, rare friendship between a wise woman named Clara and David, a twelve-year-old boy adrift in the wake of a family tragedy and his parents&rsquo; broken marriage. As the two grow closer, she brings him into her special world of <I>patois</I> and Jamaican beauty parlors and shadowy alliances, and he comes to realize that in her native country Clara has left behind a mystery, which he grows determined to unveil.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Heralded as a classic, <I>Clara&rsquo;s Heart </I>is at once moving and comical, a tribute to unconventional love, by &ldquo;a writer in total command of his narrative&rdquo; (Ian McEwan).<BR /> &#160;</DIV></DIV>