unhappy families
This month we look at unhappy families in literature: Barbara Vine’s A Dark Adapted Eye looks at a family with a sinister secret; in Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer goes in search of his family history; Whtbread winner Tim Lott uncovers a family history of depression in The Scent of Dried Roses; Anne Donovan’s orange shortlisted Buddha Da explores how a fathers religious beliefs affects his relatives.We also look at Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina, Unless by Carole Shields which was shortlisted for the orange prize, and Crime in the Neighbourhood for which Suzanne Berne won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1999 .
suggested reading A Dark Adapted Eye Everything is Illuminated The Scent of Dried Roses Anna Karenina Unless Crime in the Neighbourhood Buddha Da
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