- ISBN13: 9781439153666
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Product DescriptionGone Gone With the Wind is set entirely in this tragic page-turning novel in which a white reserve lives and works with black slaves. Amazon. com ReviewWhen a white servant against the order of the plantation society, a tragedy that makes the worst and the best in people raises, they came to call his family. Orphans, while the ship is in Ireland seven years, Lavinia comes on the steps of a tobacco plantation, where they live and work with the slaves of the local cuisine. Bound under the care of Belle’s, master’s illegitimate daughter, Lavinia feels his adoptive family, if he is of them by white skin. Finally, Lavinia is in the world of the great house, where the teacher is absent and the teacher fights opium addiction accepted. Lavinia is dangerously straddling two very different worlds. If she is forced to decide, are placed loyalty. . . More>>
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I loved this book. What a rare and rich history! Lavinia, a period of seven years, is a young Irish orphan (with a traumatic past, when for a time in memory do not call) in a position as a servant under contract with the black slaves in place of home cooking a plantation in 1800. They are parents, her family is totally devoted to her. But there can be a really of them, because she is white and his fate, it will pass on to other parties. It is mostly white slaves, and yet this small amount of Black Heritage leaves another vie.Mais the richness of this book is the trial and his characters, especially the slaves of the house including the kitchen, the inextricable mutual love is so sincere, that they still alive for me was the liveliest. The duration of this novel is great and we travel a long way with these characters end surprenante.LA house kitchen is a treasure! Buy and read, I’m getting married the author of Claude & Camille: A Novel of Claude Monet and Mozart. Rating: 5 / 5
The Kitchen House is a book that I am in the top 10% of all the books I have ever read. I found it difficult at a time and other times I had to cancel because of what happened the fight was so hard to absorb. I fell in love with the characters, absolutely incredible! You can feel the love and the feeling of moving, so deeply. I particularly liked Lavina Mae and Mama. Mama Mae was totally unselfish, open their hearts and home to this very broken young white girl who was a servant under contract. Something that I knew to appreciate how the author does not go into graphic details of the gruesome events. She needed, it was easy to fill the gaps. I am a little of the comments of the author of the book in which she gives credit to the essential spirit of these two women tell bothered him the story. . . I’d rather not know that! I can not help this novel, and I’m sure it will be one of the few that I read a second time. Bravo! Rating: 5 / 5
I thought it was a nice reading. I particularly liked the story twice and Lavinia Belle. Lavinia is young and often naive, if you do not always get the story, from his perspective. Belle gives us the dark side of truth. Lavinia Belle, and are interesting characters, but also leads them to react more than one would expect that through the whole book. For me, the most interesting character of Marshall, son of the captain. I really felt sympathy for him, despite his presence is often not in the book. It was a little boy to impress their only male role models () were of color is a violent, racist, violent and sexual abuse of authority, because his father was no longer in love with the sea as his own family. I think that Marshall would be good, but he did not know how. I felt that the captain was in fact an honest man, and things have been different had he spent more time at home. I did not know how the slaves of the plantation and their interactions with each other, but they fit the shape that could attendre.Dans Overall, I thought, this book has given us a unique perspective of slavery and life on a plantation, and felt bound by the period and place (in my part of the world, no less!). The theme is a modern slave trade, which is not often studied, and I enjoyed this departure from the usual. Rating: 4 / 5
At 17, I realized that I was not the greatest authority on literary value. My life was short, relatively inexperienced and unskilled. I spend most of their time through the lives of fictional characters living on someone else to pages and I feel the weight shift of the book in their hands. I read the home kitchen and not feel something that was not felt by Belle and Lavinia. I only saw them, their world. And when everything was finished, I felt I could cry, because the last page had been set up, but suddenly that space vide.Comme I do not read them all, Belle, Ben Marshall himself had seemed once peeled from the words to swinging me around. And it haunted me day, followed me everywhere. This novel is the genre that pulls in one as a person before you spit it all again. Maybe it’s the first feeling, no remorse, sorrow, love without obstacles, the claws in you, damage to the darkest part of you and intensified. Does that make you repent of your sins, and rejoice in your love. Anyway, I felt that I rarely felt that my short life could easily have been changed through the kitchen door or, indeed, the lives of the people in it. I had moved an inch, so small, was closer to that part of my race, my heritage, which was then almost dreamlike in its distant ancestors could intouchable.Belle someone could Lavinia personne.Yeah history, that’s it. I I felt, I think, for the first time, truly a past that I never connected in the textbooks to read. In 2 days, this novel has more than 12 years of American history reveals. And he made a real, true, beautiful and terrible all spirits, or the cake-chemin.Il there really are no words, but that’s a significant sum in order to describe the waves of emotions you feel while reading this. But I think therein lies the beauty. In the capacity of words to white pages of their inhumanity, that more gross bandwidth of the feelings that we create a brand really humaine.Le “O” from the GSO, Olivia Rating: 5 / 5
Set in the late 1700s, / / The Kitchen House / / tells the life of Lavinia, a commitment that is featured on a tobacco plantation do not know, Virginia. After he placed in the kitchen at home, she works with other domestic slaves. It falls into a routine, pleasant and aspires to his family, who did not survive the boat trip from Ireland. A handful of slaves welcome him as a family member, even if they know that once it is out of the contract can not things be the same. The tension lurks everywhere, propelling history forward. Large amounts of drama to interest the reader, racism, nervous breakdown, explosions of violence and the use of opium are not uncommon. This novel stands out for its messages of family of good and evil, and hope. Reviewed by Jackie Correa Rating: 4 / 5