The Lion in the Room Next Door -

Merilyn Simonds

Clays Limited Limited

1999

255 páginas

8h 30m

ISBN-10: 0747553807

Inspired by momrnts and events from a life, Merilyn Simonds transports the reader from Brasil, Canada, and Sweden, to Mexico, Greece and Hawaii, veering deftly from the personal to the universal. A young girl inhabits a private realm within the maze of corridors and rooms of a hotel in central Brazil. Later, a toy gun from a cowgirl costume becomes strange prop in her relationship with her father. Against the sensuous backdrop of the Ontario woods, a husband and wife struggle to cope as their marriage falters. And finally, a village lies shrouded in the past until the death of a parent unlocks the grief of a child's tragic death years before...