Natives and Exotics

In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants Natives and Exotics follows three characters linked by blood and legacy as they wander a world scarred by colonialism. <p/>Transplanted halfway around the globe in 1970 nine-year-old Alice the child of diplomats is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that in early nineteenth-century Scotland Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there. <br> The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate uneasy affair with nature in which we restlessly search for home.<br>