Burning The Sea - Softcover

Strong, Sarah Pemberton

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555836445 ISBN 13: 9781555836443

Publisher: Alyson Publications Inc, 2002

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Two searchers--Michelle, a young American with a difficult past, and Tollomi, an Americanized native of the West Indies--meet in an airport in the Dominican Republic and fall in love in the midst of a revolution in the country. Original.

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A Poetically Inspired Novel of Misplaced Memories, Wandering Souls and Raging Fire; In this remarkable debut novel, Strong's poetically simple language enhances a story of emotional dislocation, cultural identity and the powerful forces of memory and desire. In an airport in the Dominican Republic, two searchers are drawn together by a suggestive smile and a shared sense of longing. Michelle is a young American with holes in her past a need to wander so strong she walks in her sleep. Tollomi is a native of the West Indies, thoroughly Americanised by education and in search of his truer self. Haunted by elusive pasts, they forge an intense connection that allows them to comprehend each other's secrets while remaining blind to their own. For Tollomi, the route to salvation lies in his deep involvement in Dominican politics; for Michelle, it is the rebuilding of a family home, long abandoned, which she hopes holds the key to her lost memories.

Michelle's blindly obsessive drive to complete construction and Tollomi's passionate love affair with a Dominican man involved in the revolutionary movement, played out before the background of volatile political tension growing between Dominicans and Americans, set in motion an explosive series of events both heartbreaking and transcendent

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