Hospital, Janet Turner. Borderline.
London: Harper Collins, 2012.
Borderline is a thriller. Felicity, the owner of an art gallery and “Gus” Kelly a philanderer are stopped and Salvadoran
refugees are found. In the confusion,
Felicity and Gus find Dolores Marquez hidden inside a beef
carcass.They decide to smuggle the girl across the border.
Luckily they return home without any incidents.
However they get a mysterious call to say Dolores has
been murdered. Believing this is not true, they begin
to look for Dolores. They become involved in Salvadoran
politics.
Felicity and Gus find Dolores Marquez hidden inside a beefcarcass.They decide to smuggle the girl across the border.
Luckily they return home without any incidents.
However they get a mysterious call to say Dolores has
been murdered. Believing this is not true, they begin
to look for Dolores. They become involved in Salvadoran
politics.
The narrator is Jean-Marc Seymour, Felicity’s stepson. He tries to solve the mystery of his stepmothers disappearance. Felicity’s obsession with art and the characters infamous painting’s makes the story mystical and thought-provoking. The novelty of the story is seeing what people will do when put in a very unusual situation or as the author, Janet Turner Hospital puts it in an “insoluble moral dilemma”.
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