{"product_id":"natives-and-exotics-isbn-9780156032476","title":"Natives And Exotics","description":"In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTransplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.   \u003cbr\u003e The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eTHE LOVE-ARTIST\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A small, twinkling jewel of a novel . . . Wonderfully seductive . . . [Alison] has found a voice, at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader.\"--Michiko Kakutani, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eTHE MARRIAGE OF THE SEA\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully balanced . . . so that the urge to find out what will happen next is counteracted by the wish to luxuriate in Alison's lush, beautifully evocative writing.\"--\u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889877643493,"sku":"NP9780156032476","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156032476.jpg?v=1773960733","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/natives-and-exotics-isbn-9780156032476","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}