Sheila Kohler
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In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn...
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Miss G is seemingly a force of nature, a glamorous presence beloved and idolized by her blossoming charges at an all-girls British boarding school. Her students heap adoration upon her, a love that Miss G basks in and returns until the arrival of Fiamma, a wild and self-confident transfer student from Spain. Fiamma's new role as teacher's pet ignites the jealousy of former class queen Di, and triggers an obsession in Miss G that quickly spirals out...
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«Bella y perturbadora... Una historia trágica, con tintes de sexismo cultural y misoginia, pero también la historia del triunfo de una mujer joven sobre esa cultura machista y su nacimiento como escritora. Muy recomendable.» Joyce Carol Oates.
«La joven Sheila Kohler abandona el túnel del tiempo de la Sudáfrica de 1950 y viaja a Europa en un viaje de autodescubrimiento. Una búsqueda que le sirve para averiguar lo que desea, una indagación
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