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A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family, And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all... Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother has not left her room since her grandfather disappeared. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all. Taunted, beaten, despised she retreats into silence and leans to make herself invisible. In Bethany, D'Aguiar has created both a loveable character and a symbol for the search of a nation to make itself whole. If Boundary is Guyana, then Bethany Bettany - a girl torn between two names - is the spirit of its people poised for flight.
 
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Hardback Editions

January 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0701173823Title: Bethany Bettany
Author(s): Fred D'Aguiar
ISBN: 0-7011-7382-3 / 978-0-7011-7382-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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October 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0099443570Title: Bethany Bettany
Author(s): Fred D'Aguiar
ISBN: 0-09-944357-0 / 978-0-09-944357-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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