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A review by larsdradrach
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
4.0
A story that takes you unexpected places, it starts out as a harmless tale about some children s adventures living in Jamaica, but slowly turns into something else.
The tension between the light even merry narration taken from the side of the children and the actual events as the reader imagines them, provides an effect-full structure to the story.
The primarily strength of the book is the realistic and unsentimental description of children s inner life and thoughts, where many other books describes children as unbearable good and devoted to their parents or unbelievable wise beound their years, "a high wind" describes children as self absorbed, thoughtless, even cruel and most of the time clueless about the events and worries in the world of adults.
An interesting and, at times, thought provoking book.
The tension between the light even merry narration taken from the side of the children and the actual events as the reader imagines them, provides an effect-full structure to the story.
The primarily strength of the book is the realistic and unsentimental description of children s inner life and thoughts, where many other books describes children as unbearable good and devoted to their parents or unbelievable wise beound their years, "a high wind" describes children as self absorbed, thoughtless, even cruel and most of the time clueless about the events and worries in the world of adults.
An interesting and, at times, thought provoking book.