Post honen idazlea: Slawka Grabowska
The colour of milk, Nell Leyshon
Penguin Books, 2013
172 or.
ISBN 978-0-241-95954-1
Post hau ingelesez dago.
On March 14th, at the Donostia Book Club, in the Central Library (San Jeronimo street) decided to analyze The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon, a short novel published originally by Penguin Books in 2012 and chosen as the best novel of 2014 by the Madrid booksellers’ guild. “this is my book and I am writing it with my own hand” begins the novel. At first it may surprise you that the book ignores capital letters, but that is for a reason: the narrator is an illiterate girl who learns to read and write from the Bible. Mary tells us what her life in rural England in the 1830s is like and how little a woman can decide about herself in that environment.