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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
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On post-emancipation Jamaica and Dominica, Antoinette Cosway grows up in a decaying estate between worlds: distrusted by her neighbours, unmoored from her mother, heir to money that buys her a husband rather than a life. When an English gentleman marries her, the marriage becomes a slow contest of language, desire and naming, carried across two narrating voices and a landscape of heat, rain and flowering menace. Rhys writes with feverish lyricism and remarkable compression, turning a famous literary shadow into a woman with a history. Sensuous, sorrowful and hypnotic, it is a short novel that reshapes how you read everything after it.
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