A woman is summoned home to the Phillipines by her aging mother, who, along with her aunt and her cousin, reveals the startling truth about her family's past through a series of moving, magical stories. A first novel.
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L'autore:
Arlene J. Chai was born and educated in Manila. In 1982, she migrated to Sydney with her parents and sisters and now lives in Northern Beaches. After more years as an advertising copywriter than she cares to mention, she had a year off during which she wrote The Last Time I Saw Mother. She is at work on a second novel.
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her never writes. So when the mail arrived that day, I was not expecting to find a letter from her. There was no warning."
Between generations of women, there are always secrets--relationships kept hidden, past events obscured, true feelings not spoken. But sometimes the truth is so primal it must be told. Now, with haunting lyricism and emotional clarity, Arlene Chai has written an exquisite novel about a family of women who break their silence. At the center of The Last Time I Saw Mother is the singular story of a woman who suddenly learns she is not who she thinks she is.
Caridad is a wife and mother, a native of the Philippines living in Sydney, Australia. Out of the blue Caridad's mother summons her home. Although she is not ill, Thelma needs to talk to her daughter -- to reveal a secret that has been weighing heavily on her for years.
It is a tale that Caridad in no way suspects. She stopped asking questions about the past long
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- EditoreFawcett Books
- Data di pubblicazione1996
- ISBN 10 0449910687
- ISBN 13 9780449910689
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine340
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