Título: Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
Autor: Sheila Kohler
Sinopse: When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death."
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir”, de Sheila Kohler, publicado pela editora Thorndike Press Large Print, em 2017 e com 253 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Thorndike Press Large Print
Páginas: 253
Ano: 2017
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Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 1410498441
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Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Thorndike Press Large Print oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas e envolventes, que transitam entre suspense, drama histórico e retratos humanos profundos. A maioria das obras apresenta personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais, conflitos familiares ou desafios sociais, muitas vezes ambientados em contextos históricos ou pequenos cenários comunitários, como cidades do interior ou grupos fechados. O ritmo varia entre tramas que mantêm a tensão crescente, especialmente em mistérios policiais, e histórias mais contemplativas, com foco em relações interpessoais e transformações pessoais.
