Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The beginning was good.
I enjoyed authors writing style - sentences like machine gun bursts.
After three pages I felt tired with it.
Then - the story - Nigerian women in England.
I felt sorry for them.
I remember 195o-ies - end of colonialism in Africa.
New, independent countries - Ghana, Kenia, Nigeria... the list was impressive, expectations great.
How come that now each of these countries is much worse than it was 65 years ago?
I jumped few dozen pages forward.
Again I was initially charmed with machine gun writing style.
Nigerian women in England.
I could not relate it to any of mine experiences or imaginations... jump forward few hundred pages.
Main character preparing for a premiere of her play in a theatre in London.
Good luck but I am not going.
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