Stone World (Agee Joel)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

The son of acclaimed writer James Agee tells a fictionalized version of his 1940s boyhood, when his mother fled America for Mexico, and raised him amid a circle including expat European communists, Mexican labor activists, and even Frida Kahlo . . . Set in the mid-late 1940s, this book tells the story of a six-year-old boy named Peter, who finds himself in a strange new world -- a small town in Mexico. His mother, a classical musician, has left his father -- also a famous musician -- and married a German writer Peter calls his second father. His parents are part of a community that always seems nervous, up to something -- he stumbles on meetings where they suddenly hush themselves, there are parties that break up into political arguments (Frida Kahlo attends one and makes quite an impression of the boy). His second father yearns for news from Germany, and seems
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