num_pages: 210
description: Valerie Martins Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slaverys venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828 the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet pretty bitterly intelligent and monstrously self-absorbed seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah who is both his victim and his mistress.Exploring the permutations of Manons own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion Property unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Property
publisher: Vintage