By Anne Raeff,Nancy Zafris
ISBN-10: 0820349895
ISBN-13: 9780820349893
ISBN-10: 0820354740
ISBN-13: 9780820354743
You’ll see how appealing it really is within the morning—jungle throughout us,ö says one of many characters in Anne Raeff’s tale assortment, pertaining to the best way that the jungle that threatens may also offer solace. The jungle in those tales is either metaphorical and genuine, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam. Raeff examines how conflict and violence, just like the jungle, seep into our lives, even if we're now not at risk and lengthy after the struggle is over.
While suffering from worry, risk, and displacement, the characters of The Jungle round Us shape unusual and robust bonds in far away and not likely locations. A kinfolk that has escaped Vienna finally ends up at the fringe of the Amazon, the place the fogeys struggle yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. sisters study classes approximately race and battle in the course of the Columbia collage riots of1968. a tender woman confronts loss of life while her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay, grownup sisters confront their loneliness whereas their precocious younger cost faces off with a monkey. Raeff ’s tales are approximately embracing the area although the realm includes every little thing we fear.
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