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1. Jan. 2015 · Nine year old Amedea is buried underground and goes to sleep in order to survive. 10 years later, she emerges with a singing locust embedded in her forehead. She and her rescuer, Beenabe, trek through the desert to find the land of trees, water and food. Quite impenetrable as a story.
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- Merlinda Bobis
22. Okt. 2015 · The novel crosses over into magic realism when Amadea then sleeps underground for ten years, and emerges aged 19 in a nine-year-old body, with a locust embedded in her brow. This locust sings the forbidden. It tells truths that no one may say.
31. Mai 2016 · One night, a village is bombed for attempting to cross the border. Nine-year old Amedea is buried underground and sleeps to survive. Ten years later, she wakes with a locust embedded in her brow. A magical fable, this is a girl’s journey through devastation and humanity’s contemporary wound: the border.
10. März 2016 · Locust Girl is the Filipino-Australian writer Merlinda Bobis’s fourth novel. It tells the story of the Locust Girl, Amedea, who undertakes a journey from the desert to the green borders of the Kingdoms. Nine-year-old Amedea lives with her father in numbered tents where water, seeds, and vial lights are meagerly rationed, and ...
Locust Girl: A Lovesong, by Merlinda Bobis. It begins with the stars going out, not as a result of pollution, but an ecological catastrophe nonetheless. In a desert, refugees dwell, until they are ...
- Lucy Sussex
Locust Girl is set in a nameless parched landscape, a place of drought, famine and human misery, reminiscent of today’s despair in Africa or the Middle East. Only here, we are taken to a post-apocalyptic stage in history. In this world Amedea, the Locust Girl, tells her story of hardship, punishment and dislocation, endured in the quest for ...
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