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Trespass |  | Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0701177942
EAN: 9780701177942
ASIN: 0701177942
Publication Date: March 4, 2010
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Product Description
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. His sister, Audrun dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life.
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 Another Brilliant Read from Tremain April 12, 2010
P. Holmes (Cape Town South Africa)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love Rose Tremain books and her new novel, 'Trespass' doesn't disappoint. Yes, it's dark, yes the characters are flawed and somewhat unlikable, but, hell, how the story grips you and lives in your head, so you can't put it down.
Rose Tremain writes such diverse books. 'The Road Home', "Restoration', 'The Way I Found Her', all so different, yet equally compelling.
I liked the 'brother and sister' comparisions in "Trespass", their memories of very different mothers, their totally different upbringings, the French countryside superbly drawn, so you long to visit the granite hills and gorges of Cevennes. Tremain has the gift of clever, crisp description, you almost gasp at some of her phrases. ('the sheets and shirts white as fondant and folded edge-to-edge and smelling like fresh toast', 'cutlass bright light') Above all, the all-pervading sense of menace, throughout the book. You just know something horrible is about to happen on the next page!
Come on, Rose Tremain, hurry up... I can't wait for the next one!
A superb writer and a brilliant novel May 19, 2010
B. Mitchell-innes (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rose Tremain is, in my opinion, one of the best writers around today.
This novel is so beautifully written that it stays with you.
One of the reasons she is so talented is that unlike others she does not write the same novel over and over. The story lines are always different.
She is up there with Ishiguro as exceptionally talented.
another brilliant book April 27, 2010
jane holdings (uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yet again Rose Tremain has written a brilliant story.
The past and present, with all the complications of family life and personality, reads as beautifully as a piece of Bach sounds.
Not to be missed!
Technically brilliant, very dark, thought provoking April 4, 2010
Mrs. Jean D. Andrews (Staplehurst, England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Rose Tremain never ceases to delight me, both for her superb command of language and for the fact that she never repeats herself from novel to novel. This novel is many layered and very disturbing. We have two families, one English upper middle class, and one southern French peasantry, both inherently dysfunctional, and an interwoven story of a murder committed ostensibly for the sake of a property. In both families, the relationship of brother and sister is central and is the direct result of bad parenting, in the case of Anthony Verey and his sister Veronica, by a dazzling but neglectful mother. What good mother pampers one child and denigrates the other, leaving them both on one occasion with only cereal to eat, because the fridge in their home is full of nothing but champagne and exotic food for a party she is about to throw? Neither Anthony nor Veronica has experienced really deep love for another human being- both are more drawn to things than people, and the human relationships they have are based on sexual excitement rather than loving commitment. The close bond between them is a direct result of parental neglect. Audrun and Aramon Lunel lose a loving mother, Bernadette, who dies before they are fully grown and the brother/sister relationship is destroyed when their father abuses his daughter and draws her brother into sharing that abuse. All these elements and complex layers are revealed subtly and gradually, leaving the reader fascinated but appalled. In a sense it is a morality tale of our times and shows the devastation which is brought about by adopting purely material values and the seeing love only as sexual gratification. Interesting to note is that Veronica at the end plans to return to England and to cultivate her garden (an English one this time) and to own a horse.
Sibling love, lust, loathing and loss July 23, 2010
westmer
Rose Tremain is a first rate - ie literary and literate - writer who can turn readily to new themes and genres and make them work for her and for the reader.
In Trespass she takes elements of the family psycho-saga, some of the "place in the sun" memoir, a dash of the classic thriller, and winds them into an enthralling read. She keeps her secrets almost to the end and yet manages a totally credible denoument. En route (this is set in France after all) she places every word with accuracy and skill (it's finely nuanced?).
Read and enjoy it!
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