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1 de mar. de 2013 · The Hired Man explores the high costs of civil war, the power of history's ghosts, and the costs of one man's attempts to hold individuals accountable for a violent past.
Reviews and Praise for The Hired Man. "There are few contemporary writers who bear better witness to history's nightmarishness—its surreal violence and its ability to trap us in cycles of brutality—than novelist Aminatta Forna." Anthony Domesticofor The San Francisco Chronicle.
The Hired Man (2013) is a novel by Scottish-Sierra Leonean writer Aminatta Forna about an Englishwoman, Laura, and her two children who renovate a farmhouse in Croatia with the help of local handyman, Duro.
27 de mar. de 2013 · The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna – review. A theme of civil conflict and recent horror rings as true in a small Croatian town as it did in Sierra Leone. Alfred Hickling. Wed 27 Mar 2013 08.00...
14 de oct. de 2014 · Aminatta Forna's third novel 'The Hired Man' is set in Gost, a quiet and very beautiful Croatian town, surrounded by mountains and fields abundant with wild flowers. Into this seemingly idyllic landscape arrives attractive Englishwoman, Laura, with her two teenaged children, Matthew and Grace.
As Duro works to shield Laura and her family from the town’s hostility, volatile secrets begin to bubble to the surface—secrets that could threaten everyone in the seemingly sleepy town, even the...
14 de oct. de 2014 · An NPR, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year, The Hired Man--now available in paperback--is an incisive, powerful novel of a small Croatian town and...
