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Homeland

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Book Express (NZ)
(Wellington, Nueva Zelanda)

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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Good. 391 pages. Full of atmosphere, rich in description and utterl y compelling, this is Clare Francis at her very best. It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicem en are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent foo d and job shortages, and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Poli sh refugee propaganda reaches its height, Wladyslaw Malinowski, a young veteran of Monte Cassino, now stranded in a resettlement c amp on the Somerset Levels, attempts to start a new life on a wit hy farm in the middle of the wetlands. His taskmaster is Billy Gr eer, newly demobbed, and itching to escape to a job in London. St ella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troub led, elusive, and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away agai n, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards an d coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyslaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. Homeland is Clare Francis's finest achievement. turbulence of a country beggared by war, and the uncertainties of the men returning to it. Nº de ref. del artículo: 759a

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