My Son, My Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846554594 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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An incredible story which starts with the abduction of the author's children then goes on to tackle the biggest questions about who we are. What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London. Here is an intensely provocative journey through complex and controversial territory: child murder, tsunami, international conventions, hatred, cultures at war. It has a haunting eloquence and, against the odds, a grim sense of humour. Writing with astonishing range and insight, Galbraith tackles the deepest questions about who we are and how we treat each other. He has not seen them since. But My son, My sonis infinitely more than a personal tale of sudden loss and one man's attempts to find his sons. It goes to the very heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races -- to the heart of
Erin said A Study In Loss. What if you came home after a few days away to find your family had disappeared? What of your foreign spouse had absconded with your children to a country where she knew you could do nothing legally to even get to see your sons, let alone get them back? What if your young sons were being poisioned against you by a wife whose motives were to destroy all memories of their previous life in a foreign country with their father? What if the authorities took little interest on this . "stared well, then went somewhere else" according to Peter Faulkner. I thought this would be a good story. Turned into a preaching session of god knows what. Better to read something else. This was painful to finish
He lives in Scotland. . DOUGLAS GALBRAITH was born in Glasgow in 1965 and is the author of three novels, The Rising Sun, A Winter in China, and King Henry
"Galbraith chronicles with elegantly contained rageHis book is a howl of pain, beautifully written by a man wounded beyond endurance" -- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph "A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affectingaccomplisheda great, unsettling book" -- Hugh Macdonald Glasgow Herald