Penguin:

"In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; and from lonely adulthood to old age and beyond - here are women adrift, at sea, down but not quite out."

Congratulations on winning the International Women's Day 2019 release challenge in Finland!

Thank you for the terrific challenge and the prize, too!

The writer mentioned Trinidad and Venezuela in the first novella. I visited Trinidad once during a Caribbean cruise.
I liked best the first novella, others not so much.
Picture: Limbo Dance in Port of Spain, Trinidad, January 24 2012

The guide told us to be very careful when going to the center of Port of Spain. We saw guards along the way. I don't know if it was for the safety of the government buildings and posh hotels along street or for the safety of the cruise ship tourists.
I saw the first memorial for a cricket player in a park. I knew very little about cricket at that time. Now we have a cricket field in Kerava and I can see cricket being played quite often, every summer week-end. Still I don't understand the rules. At first all the players in Kerava wore white clothes. Now meny of them have blue team uniform or some other colour. Not half of the players wear white anymore. Those who do look like their origin might be in India or Pakistan. White is very unpractical as players don't have any servants now for cleaning their clothes.
The sculpture was made in 2011 to honour Brian Charles Lara called The Prince of Port of Spain, the world famous cricket player.

Karibialla Jeesuskin on päivettynyt!
In Caribbean even Jesus has got some colour from the Sun! Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

In the Caribbean electrical wiring is amasing or should I say appalling. I wonder how many incidents or accidental deaths or fires do they have in a year because of this.
A light house in a field of wires. Birds must be careful too.

Some electric wires more and Lucky Bakery.

National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port of Spain, Trinidad is almost as complex as the Opera House in Sidney.

Deliberin miittiin tarjolle.

Mielenkiintoisia lukuhetkiä!

Kirja pääsee Redin miittiin tänään.

Mukavia lukuhetkiä!

I left the book in the bookcase in the Olohuone.
Happy reading!

Found from Redi. At first look I thought this was a Swedish book. Then the old bookshop keeper in me whispered: "A Swedish Penguin book? You've got to be kidding!"
This looks like a good book to slip in an envelope and surprise somebody with.

I assumed the first story would be about Nazis as they will forever remain the baddies who began by burning books and continued to burning over six million people.
This story reminds me of a client we had perhaps 20 years ago. A Finnish man with a Rottweiler and a Thai wife. In that order. He was one of those men who needed a big dog to boost his ego. He was sort of proud that the dog was a bit aggressive. He talked to us in an overly polite, even submissive way, but whenever he turned to his wife, who never said anything and only stood in a corner, his eyes and voice turned cold and commanding. He treated his dog much better. Must have been a nightmare for the Thai woman to end up in the middle of nowhere, in a dark and cold country, with a bully husband and a Rottweiler. But she got the longer straw in the end. The husband wasn't old, perhaps 35, when he had a brain stroke. He had great difficulties walking and talking and we saw the pair only once after that, the roles completely changed. In walked the Thai woman, her head held high, and the shaking, feet and speech dragging husband stood in the shadows. Next time when the man called about the dog he said he had difficulties coming as the wife had left him and he can't drive anymore. Also he had an appointed trusted man who took care if his economics, because he could no longer count. We saw the dog a few times, when they got a lift, but soon he had to be put down as he was too much of a handful for an invalid to keep and had become dangerous. The dog was his only company, so we almost felt sorry for the man. Almost.
I can't help but smile whenever somebody mentiones Encyclopaedia Britannica. When my parents were newly wed with a child coming, they didn't have much money. They had just moved together and should buy only the basic things for a new home. What did Dad buy? Encyclopaedia Britannica, all 24 volumes. Mom had enough money left to buy two wicker chairs.

Can't say that I will try to find more books by Rhys having read this. Did look her up from Wikipedia, though. Born in 1890 and she mirrowed her own life in many of her writings, poor devil.

Even if I don't get to travel yet, books do. This was small and slim enough to fit in an ordinary envelope. Hopefully you will like the book more than I did.

Received, with my first Xmas card and a lovely letter... Yes, I feel guilty as sin, you've achieved that!
I don't know about this book, but I loved "Wide Sargasso Sea", a sequel to "Jane Eyre" written by Ms Rhys which stands on its own.
And I definitely loved going through the posts above... I doubt the book will be more interesting than these!
Thanks, as usual you have been a star! :)