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Paperback 224 Pages
Published: 04/09/2003
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Exploring the venomous effects of slavery and disastrous marriage, Martin’s multilayered, haunting novel mines questions of freedom, loyalty and belonging in the heightened setting of a Louisiana sugar plantation in 1828.

Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie.

This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house, no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn . . .

Beautifully written, Property is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349117324
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 180 g
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 15 mm

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“Exceptional Read”

Thank you to the publishers for this review copy to celebrate the 25th year of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
This was the 2003 winner, and it is indeed an absolutely exceptionally fantastic read which I would... More

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