3.5
The Hired Man
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Visitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a well-known farmhouse just outside of town. Laura, a British woman, and her two children are refurbishing the home to be their summer cottage, and Duro agrees to lend a hand, becoming Laura's confidant along the way. But the rest of the residents of Gost are not so pleased to have outsiders in their midst.
As Duro works to shield Laura and her family from the town's hostility, volatile secrets begin to bubble to the surface—secrets that could threaten everyone in the seemingly sleepy town, even the unwitting new residents.
is a story of lost love, dangerous history, and quiet malice. "Not since
has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are invisible to all but it's participants, who do what they must to survive" (
).
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“21%. was already uninterested but after the author went on to describe a girl with Downs’ Syndrome as r******* I was out.”
About Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna is the author of the novels
,
, and
, as well as the memoir
. Forna's books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in
, the
, the
, and
. She is currently the Lannan Foundation Chair in Poetics at Georgetown University.
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