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Ladataan... VauxhallTekijä: Gabriel Gbadamosi
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"Vauxhall is written in the way that English should be written--clean, swift, and with flashes of lightning."--Bonnie Greer "A powerful novel . . . Gabadamosi describes with poetic rhythm a child's awakening in a violent, confusing London."--Daily Mail 1970s London: Young Michael runs past the railway arches and terraces of Vauxhall. Reaching the street on which he lives, he witnesses a young girl fall from a window, her sari floating down behind her. Her lifeless body lies crumpled on the ground. This incident marks the beginning of a period in which Michael's life threatens to unravel. From his sister's taunts to a series of house fires, police harassment, his parents' crumbling marriage and the realization that the council intends to clear out the "slum" he calls home, he learns to navigate his way through an array of obstacles, big and small. Vauxhall is a tender portrait of a young boy looking for his place in inner city London. Born in London,Gabriel Gbadamosi is an Irish Nigerian poet, playwright, and essayist. He was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellow at the Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, and a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University. His plays includeShango,Hotel Orpheu, and for radioThe Long, Hot Summer of '76 (BBC Radio 3), which won the Richard Imison Award. He has presentedNightwaves on BBC Radio 3 andArt Beat on the BBC World Service. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Vauxhall is presumably an autobiographical novel, as its author is also of mixed Nigerian and Irish heritage and grew up in impoverished South London neighborhoods. The book is most effective when it describes the racial slights that Michael and his siblings experience, particularly when he and his siblings are out in public with their mother, who walks separately from them to avoid harassment of them or herself by those who disapprove of her having a black husband. Michael's mother is the most sympathetic character in the book, as she keeps the family together despite her own poor health, external pressure from her relatives and neighbors, and an often indifferent and unromantic husband.
I found Vauxhall to be a mildly interesting but ultimately disappointing novel, as it could have been a far more interesting book had it been more reflective and less rushed, and if its potentially interesting characters had been better developed. (