This World Does Not Belong to Us
By Natalia García Freire
Translated by Victor Meadowcroft
Read by Giordan Diaz
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After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control—and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots. Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.
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Summary
Summary
After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother’s beloved flowerbeds and his father’s grave alike.
A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas’s father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control—and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots.
Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.
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Parenting eye-openers
- For a father, like myself, this book has been a wake-up call. We fathers tend to handle relationships with our children, well, to put it mildly after reading the revelatory words of Freire, somewhat egotistical and narcissistically. Most earth-shattering to me was the environments the story takes place in. This is not the typical father-son gone bad relationship we see dramatized on scree all the time, but because the surroundings are shy of urban social-cancer, we get a very different feel for what makes the difference. The father teaches the son that decays and rots is sacred, and that is called life. The boy, Lucas, feeling out of sorts with the idea of God and man, finds a special consolation with insects, especially the arthropods. Well, don’t want to be guilty of a spoiler, so fathers, sons, do yourselves a favor and listen to this fine recording to get the full story. You won’t be disappointed.
Author
Author Bio: Natalia García Freire
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 3.47 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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