Download Banana Heart Summer: A Novel PDF EPUB
Author: Merlinda Bobis
Pages: 257
Size: 1.539,31 Kb
Publication Date: May 20,2008
Category: Australia & Oceania
In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all your senses. Richly imagined, gloriously created, Banana Heart Summer time can be an incandescent tale of meals, family, and longing—simultaneously a like letter to moms and daughters and a lively special event of friendship and community. in the pungent aromas of the laundry she prepares for the most amazing woman on Remedios Road. Developing up with five sisters and brothers, she looks for joy in the magical smell of the deep-frying bananas of Nana Dora, who first tells Nenita the myth of the banana center; To Nenita, meals is synonymous with like—the like she yearns to get from her disappointed mom.
Twelve-year-old Nenita is starving for everything: food, like, lifestyle. in the tantalizing scent of Manolito, the heartthrob of Nenita and her close friends; But in come early july of broken hearts, fresh friendships, secrets, and discoveries, change will end up being as unexpected and explosive as the monsoon that marks the finish of the sweltering warmth—and transforms Nenita’s young life with techniques she could by no means imagine.