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Este o carte extraordinară, o recomand din tot sufletul și chiar dacă mi-a stors la un moment dat câteva lacrimi, am adorat-o de la prima până la ultima pagină! Un alt punct forte al cărții care merită menționat este descrierea plină de epitete și metafore care fac din roman unul extrem de melodios.
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This was an amazing story of a young English woman who married a tea planter from Ceylon and moved there to live with him on his tea plantation. There were many circumstances that affected their happiness - the sister-in-law who would not leave the plantation and exerted undue influence on the husband; an old girlfriend who doesn't want to let go; the natives just coming in to their own in terms of wanting independence from England and to not be slave-type labor any longer; devastating problems
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