The Resource The children's house, Alice Nelson
The children's house, Alice Nelson
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The item The children's house, Alice Nelson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina; and her bond with the little boy intensifies. The pure, blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves through The Children's House. When Marina learns some disturbing news about her longdisappeared mother, Gizela, she leaves New York in search of the loose ends of her life. As Christmas nears, her tightknit, loving family, along with Constance and Gabriel, join Marina in her mother's former home, with a startling consequence, an act that will transform all of their lives forever. Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories about the terrible things humans are capable of into a beautifully told, hopefilled novel exploring the profound consolations that we can find in each other
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The children's house
- Title
- The children's house
- Statement of responsibility
- Alice Nelson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, when Jacob is a successful psychiatrist with a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage. The family moves to a brownstone in Harlem, formerly a convent inhabited by elderly nuns. Outside the house one day Marina encounters Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler, Gabriel. Unmoored and devastated, Constance and Gabriel quickly come to depend on Marina; and her bond with the little boy intensifies. The pure, blinding love that it is possible to feel for children not our own is the thread that weaves through The Children's House. When Marina learns some disturbing news about her longdisappeared mother, Gizela, she leaves New York in search of the loose ends of her life. As Christmas nears, her tightknit, loving family, along with Constance and Gabriel, join Marina in her mother's former home, with a startling consequence, an act that will transform all of their lives forever. Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories about the terrible things humans are capable of into a beautifully told, hopefilled novel exploring the profound consolations that we can find in each other
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nelson, Alice
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Family secrets
- Refugees
- Married people
- Interpersonal relations
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The children's house, Alice Nelson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143791188
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2018034053
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The children's house, Alice Nelson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 295 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143791188
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- be2018034053
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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