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The Darling - Banks, Russell
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"The Darling" is Hannah Musgrave s story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he s immediately placed in prison. Hannah s encounter with Taylor in America ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah s family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice."…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"The Darling" is Hannah Musgrave s story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he s immediately placed in prison. Hannah s encounter with Taylor in America ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah s family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice."
Autorenporträt
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.