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First Published:
Mar 2004, 261 pages
Paperback:
Feb 2005, 272 pages
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From the book jacket: Set in England against the backdrop of World War II, this is a story of pursuit: of stolen goods, of missing years, and
of one woman’s forgotten history
From the book jacket: Seventy-two-year-old Winnie—homeless and abandoned time and again by those
she’s trusted—would say she’s no trouble. She is content to let the days
go by, minding her own business, bothering no one. Winnie would rather not
recall the past and at her age doesn’t see much point in thinking about the
future. But she is catapulted out of her exile when a young girl robs her of her
suitcase and her wig—Winnie’s only material possessions. With nothing else
to show for her life, these few pieces are irreplaceable to her; she wants them
back.
Winnie then embarks on a journey to find the thief, and what begins as a search
for stolen belongings becomes the rediscovery of a stolen life.
As she pieces together the fragments of her life, her once secluded world begins
to fill with people and Winnie recognizes after all these years, she has not
escaped from her life at all: she has been circling it, and must now come to
terms with it.
Comment: This is a wonderful, poetic book. I felt like I was
reading it through a fog - I knew there were shapes out there but couldn't
be quite sure what they all were - until they eventually came into
focus. This is a book to read slowly so as to gather the full impact
of each word and each image. Azzopardi doesn't spell things out, you
have to sift through the subtleties.
'Azzopardi’s forte is a seductive, supple prose that darts from sensuous
evocation of people and places to blissful reverie to haunting moments of
loneliness. . . .Another sign of a talented wordsmith on the rise.' --
Dan Cryer, Newsday
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