L'Omb

By Elise Dallemagne-Cookson

The novel is about a young English couple who leave their country to go and live in Argentina as farmers. They learn a new life in the pampas where the ombu and the gauchos live. Un jeune couple anglais part s'installer en Argentine avec leur fils pour devenir fermiers. Ils commencent donc une nouvelle vie dans les pampas, l o l'omb demeure et les gauchos galopent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409275906
• ISBN13: 9781409275909
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Making Argentina real

A captivating story at many levels. One comes away with a breathless sense of hard work, the pampas, and the added complexities of dealing with a handicapped child in a very foreign country forty years ago. And underlying other themes is a fascination and puzzlement - sometimes fear - of the superstition and mystery of a place that is rural Argentina. If you're interested in travel and history and life, read it.

The Ombu Tree

Visiting a foreign place can never match the depths of understanding that come from living there. And beautiful, mysterious Argentina forty years ago was certainly foreign to most Brits and Americans. But the author's personal experiences in a superstitious, fearful and harshly different set of cultural circumstances, find voices in the complex set of characters who live through seasons, earning a living by cooperating with and competing with nature and bureaucracies at all levels. Another story line of family courage and sadness of raising a physically impaired child in this environment weaves together with the land and the mysteries to make for a gripping and informative tale - well told.