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| Original Title: | The Other Hand |
| ISBN: | 1416589643 (ISBN13: 9781416589648) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sarah O'Rourke, Pequena Abelha, Andrew O'Rourke, Little Bee |
| Setting: | Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Costa Book Award Nominee for Novel (2008), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009) |
Chris Cleave
Paperback | Pages: 275 pages Rating: 3.71 | 219508 Users | 20943 Reviews
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| Title | : | Little Bee |
| Author | : | Chris Cleave |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 275 pages |
| Published | : | February 16th 2010 by Simon & Schuster (first published August 7th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Book Club |
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From the author of the international bestseller Incendiary comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers—one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.Rating Out Of Books Little Bee
Ratings: 3.71 From 219508 Users | 20943 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books Little Bee
Have you ever met someone you idolized? (An artist or singer, maybe. Someone super talented or brilliant or famous.) But then when you met them in person you found out they were lame? What a rip-off!Thats sort of how I feel about this book.It's the story of two women and how their lives converge. Little Bee is a 16-year-old Nigerian refugee who has seen her entire village and family brutally murdered. Sarah is a 30-something suburbanite juggling career and family. The two women met once on a
THANK YOU!!! Exactly how I felt. Also would any mother really allow her lover to stay over in the same house as her son THE DAY of his fathers
i cant say anything about the plot of this book because the dust jacket pleads with me not to and i am nothing if not obedient. (but you can read plot points in all the other reviews by rebels) i will say i loved it enough to order in and set aside his earlier book, which had never called out to me before. and this is my favorite cover ... ever.
I would have to disagree with the back cover's claim that this book is "often hilarious." This book is anything but hilarious. While there are indeed moments of light reprieve through Little Bee's witty observations and Charlie's adamant insistence of keeping his Batman costume on at all times (to ward off the "baddies"), this book is much more often dark and disturbing. Briefly, the book centers around a British couple with a troubled marriage who, while vacationing on the beaches of Nigeria in
Jennice wrote: "Great review!" Thank you
I wanted to like Little Bee. The reviews for it are exceptional. Book List starred it, Amazon named it among their February Best of the Month picks, O Magazine fondly mentions it. I mean come on, Library Journal labels it the next Kite Runner for goodness sakes! I couldnt wait to be swept away. And I was for the first couple of chapters. Little Bees character came on very strong and distinct. I felt like I could pick her out of a crowd and guess what she was thinking. But I gradually started
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