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The Darling : Russell Banks.Hannah Musgrave is the daughter of a privileged family in Boston and a radical member of a terrorist group, the Weather Underground (for which she leaves behind an education at Harvard University and her family.) Until one day she has to escape from America to Liberia. There she marries Woodrow Sundita -a government minister - and has his children, only to spend her time looking after abandoned chimpanzees, “the dreamers” that have a special place in her heart. Just when everything seems fine, Hannah’s life is interrupted once again by a revolution in Liberia and she has to leave for America. it’s only a couple of years later that Hannah comes back to find what’s left of her family and beloved “dreamers”. Brief : Essentially a story about a woman, her multiple identities and her struggle to find a place in a world dominated by violence, colonialism and revolution. Bloomsbury, Rs. 690. |