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THE LOST ANT. By Miriam Blanco-Fom-bona. George Allen and Unwin. ; N this gallant but misguided novel, the basic theme, the transplanting to London of a newly-rich South American family (largely Indian, though its name is resoundingly Spanish) from its native village (the »"Lost Ant") under the Andes, is interesting and _ well-main-tained. But the plot grafted on to this main topic is drawn from the worst sort of novelette. By flashes The Lost Ant is fine, serious, and moving, but much of it is grotesque and absurd. The author, one supposes, knows South America a good deal better than London where most of the events are transacted, The nostalgic yearning of the worldly for abandoned purity is a good subject for any novelist, but the imagined beauties of the Lost Ant in the lonely immensity of South America under the soaring peaks bécome a little tiresome with repetition. This is unlucky, as much in the book is unusual and sincere. The Lost Ant was printed, elegantly, in Sweden, and appears to have been proof-read there too.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 17
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181GO TO THE ANT New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 17
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