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War Child

Stephen Gray

出版	Serif, 1993
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War IIFiction / War & MilitaryHistory / General
ISBN	189795901X9781897959015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AaxaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Stranded in a South African fishing village during the Second World War, a mother and her young son are obliged to deal with a sweep of dramatic events which threatens to overshelm them. Silver Town, a seemingly placid backwater, is the setting of this story of gradual breakdown and inevitable collapse. The adult Jimmy - a middle-aged British businessman - returns home many years after the war and is forced to relive the time of his childhood, a youth caught in conflicting loyalties which threaten to tear him apart.War Childis an extraordinarily sensitive novel, the story of James Esslin - Jimmy-boy, son of Sarah and Andy, protege of Euphemia, his African nanny - who is part of everything but apart from everyone. At once the story of every adult's lost childhood and a superb portrait of character in formation - and disintegration -War Childis told in a way that makes a lost colonial world vividly real.