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PRU GOES TROPPO IBD

PIWAIWAKA PRESS
03 / 2023
9780473538750
Anglès

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Pru has been married to Guy for a quarter of a century. She hasnâÇÖt had sex for ten years. âÇÖWhy the hell do I live my life this way?âÇÖ she says to herself. âÇÖI mean - really!âÇÖ Change comes from out of the blue when odd old Uncle Bertie dies in Samoa and leaves his property to Guy. On a whim, the couple decide to go and take a look at what they know must be a tropical paradise. Not their usual stamping ground, you understand. Daringly, they fly to Apia.áPru soon finds herself thinking things, feeling things, doing things sheâÇÖs never till now come close to thinking, feeling, doing.áááâÇÖAre we just an ornamental waste of space, dâÇÖyou think?âÇÖ she asks Guy in Samoa.áááâÇÖI rather think we are, darling.âÇÖáááâÇÖOh dear.âÇÖáááPru Goes Troppoáis a comic novel about the ups and downs of two people who are privileged parasites, yet curiously innocent. Among the themes explored in the story are class, gender, colonialism and neo-colonialism, ageing and belonging. And pratfalls.

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