A man who loved children
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A man who loved children
14.99 €
In 2005, Time magazine included The Man Who Loved Children in its list of the 100 best books of the 20th century.
What happens when a teenage girl lives with a tyrannical father, a hysterical stepmother, and five half-siblings? Murder.
Louis has it tough. She's the eldest in the family, caring for the younger children. Her stepmother constantly yells, complaining about poverty, her husband, and her fate. She's consumed by secrets and debts. Her father has invented his own world. In it, he's a genius. He commands the rain, and a Wishing Tree grows in the yard. Her parents constantly quarrel. Their hatred spills out onto their children. Louie is tired of it. The time will come, and she'll understand what needs to be done.
The Man Who Loved Children is a largely personal novel for Australian writer Christina Stead. Her mother died when she was only two years old. Christina admired her father, but she also suffered from his authoritarianism. Their relationship worsened with the arrival of their stepmother and stepsiblings. Kristina dedicated this book to her teenage experiences, confiding her innermost thoughts to its pages.
You'll enjoy "The Man Who Loved Children" if you were deeply impressed by Pavel Sanaev's "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" and the TV series "Big Little Lies."
What happens when a teenage girl lives with a tyrannical father, a hysterical stepmother, and five half-siblings? Murder.
Louis has it tough. She's the eldest in the family, caring for the younger children. Her stepmother constantly yells, complaining about poverty, her husband, and her fate. She's consumed by secrets and debts. Her father has invented his own world. In it, he's a genius. He commands the rain, and a Wishing Tree grows in the yard. Her parents constantly quarrel. Their hatred spills out onto their children. Louie is tired of it. The time will come, and she'll understand what needs to be done.
The Man Who Loved Children is a largely personal novel for Australian writer Christina Stead. Her mother died when she was only two years old. Christina admired her father, but she also suffered from his authoritarianism. Their relationship worsened with the arrival of their stepmother and stepsiblings. Kristina dedicated this book to her teenage experiences, confiding her innermost thoughts to its pages.
You'll enjoy "The Man Who Loved Children" if you were deeply impressed by Pavel Sanaev's "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" and the TV series "Big Little Lies."
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