Review of The Cement Garden (1993) by Mina . — 20 May 2010
I remember that when reading the book, I was really shocked by the unusual frankness...by the unusual happenings, feelings, or should I call them...not something that a society would approve of.
Two teenagers are left with their two younger siblings alone after their mother dies, only a little while their father has also departed. They decide to bury her body in cement, in an iron file cabinet, left down in the basement.
It is clearly that the kids are trying to live the drama by their own methods: the youngest starts dressing like a girl, and plays with his best friend being his mom and dad, and also drinks from the feeding bottle. His sister keeps a diary where she addresses her dead mother, telling her what has been happening. her bigger brother stops washing and keeps being obsessed by his body, has his own place to retire, smoke and read from the book he got for his birthday. Their bigger sister starts dating an overly older business man, that eventually rats on them.
This review of The Cement Garden (1993) was written by Mina . on 20 May 2010.
The Cement Garden has generally received positive reviews.
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