Orwell's Roses
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'I loved this book... An
exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood
'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' George
Orwell In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in
Hertfordshire. Over eighty years later Rebecca Solnit encounters
them, and is inspired to explore a different side to the great
writer and activist to the one we know so well.Following his
journey from the coal mines of England to taking up arms in the
Spanish Civil War, and his explosive critiques of Stalin and
authoritarianism, here Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell. And in
her dialogue with the author and his fascination with nature, she
makes unexpected connections with the colonial legacy of the flower
garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's extraordinary roses,
and reveals Stalin's strange obsession with growing lemons in
impossibly cold conditions. A fresh reading of a towering figure of
the twentieth century, Orwell's Roses finds solace and solutions
for the political and environmental challenges we face today, and
is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of
resistance.'Luminous...It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and
blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations'
New Statesman 'A genuinely extraordinary mind, whose curiosity,
intelligence and willingness to learn seem unbounded' Irish Times
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Granta Books ,
Rebecca (Y) Solnit
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Granta Books,
Rebecca (Y) Solnit
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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