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China Garden by Kristina Olsson
ISBN: 9780702236976 ISBN-10: 0702236977 Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Imprint: University of Queensland Press Publisher: University of Queensland Press Publish Date: 2-Mar-2009 Country of Publication: Australia |
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Book Review: China Garden by Kristina Olsson - Reviewed by Boomert (11 Jan 2010) Kicking off with news of an abandoned newborn baby, The China Garden pulls readers straight in before winding the pace back to slowly develop the characters that people the small, unnamed northern- NSW town in which the novel is set. The report of an abandoned newborn baby is followed by a woman in Italy receiving a call to tell her that her mother has died at home in Australia. The significance of the two events to the characters and the events that lead up to and stem from them, are unravelled over the course of this second novel by Swedish-Australian Kristina Olsson. From an ancient pear tree to the profligacy of suburban vegetable gardens (prickled throughout with rose bushes), plants, trees and their lessons of life, death, rebirth and growth season this novel. The metaphor is clear but never heavyhanded. The lushness of the northern NSW region permeates the book. The reader gets a strong sense of the pull the Pacific has on the town’s... » Read all 1 book reviews for China Garden by Kristina Olsson |
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