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1 Mac 2013 · The Hired Man. Aminatta Forna. 3.93. 4,118 ratings578 reviews. The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.
The Hired Man is a taut, unsettling but also intensely moving portrait of humanity at its most flawed." Malcolm Forbes for The Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Forna has walked the walk, lived close to the darkness she reveals—darkness in situations that call for truth rather than another layer of dust and disguise."
The Hired Man (2013) is a novel by Scottish-Sierra Leonean writer Aminatta Forna about an Englishwoman, Laura, and her two children who renovate a farmhouse in Croatia with the help of local handyman, Duro.
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...
28 Mac 2013 · A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange...
The Hired Man. Aminatta Forna. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Oct 1, 2013 - Fiction - 304 pages. The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel...
1 Okt 2013 · The Hired Man: A Novel Kindle Edition. by Aminatta Forna (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 1,612 ratings. See all formats and editions. An award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist “brilliantly portrays the atmosphere” of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets (The Guardian).
