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The Summer Guest gives us all of the pleasures of a superb mystery novel, but most of all it is a profound meditation on the power, and necessity, of the imagination. What a deeply moving novel. --Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and Above the Waterfall"
Beautifully crafted and richly evocative, The Summer Guest offers sharp insight into the humor and humanity of the literary legend, and vivid transport to the verdant countryside of 1880s Eastern Ukraine. --Cathy Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Painted Girls"
Multi-layered . Captures a classic Russian theme the beauty of sadness with a portrait of friendship between a relatively lighthearted Anton Chekhov and a young woman doctor . A metafictional paean to literature s capacity to seduce us and make us see the world differently. --Heller McAlpin, www.LitHub.com"
In an enchanting era-spanning novel, Anderson crafts a literary mystery that goes beyond the limits of time. --Entertaiment Weekly, "Must List""
Luminous . Intriguing . Many facts of Chekhov s life are deftly folded into The Summer Guest. Moreover, Anderson cannily evokes the charm, witty skepticism and compassion that underpins his writing. The bittersweet tone and elegantly entwined portraits of three remarkable women that make The Summer Guest so transporting. --Seattle Times"
The book blurs the line between firsthand experience and imagining worlds one cannot know, either because of blindness or the removals of time and geography, and renders authentic and memorable portraits of its three heroines. --New York Times Book Review"
Elegant. This alluring and deceptively ingenuous novel demands close consideration from its readers, contains an internal mystery, and packs a heartbreakingly lovely emotional punch. --Booklist (starred review)"
The interplay between past and present draws readers into the novel and enables them to believe they have actually met the great playwright. Illuminating. Anderson, a noted translator has a sure touch in dealing with her material. An impressive work, highly recommended to lovers of literary fiction. --Library Journal"
Inspired by a real friendship between Chekhov and a Ukranian family, you will fall in love with this gorgeously written historical fiction novel. --Serendipity Magazine"
The blind doctor, Zinaida Lintvaryova, stays in my heart long after I close Alison Anderson s beautifully written book. The young Chekhov himself cannot outshine Zinaida as she urgently explores life, science, art, family, and love, her passion defying death. --Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"
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Beautifully crafted and richly evocative, The Summer Guest offers sharp insight into the humor and humanity of the literary legend, and vivid transport to the verdant countryside of 1880s Eastern Ukraine. --Cathy Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Painted Girls"
Multi-layered . Captures a classic Russian theme the beauty of sadness with a portrait of friendship between a relatively lighthearted Anton Chekhov and a young woman doctor . A metafictional paean to literature s capacity to seduce us and make us see the world differently. --Heller McAlpin, www.LitHub.com"
In an enchanting era-spanning novel, Anderson crafts a literary mystery that goes beyond the limits of time. --Entertaiment Weekly, "Must List""
Luminous . Intriguing . Many facts of Chekhov s life are deftly folded into The Summer Guest. Moreover, Anderson cannily evokes the charm, witty skepticism and compassion that underpins his writing. The bittersweet tone and elegantly entwined portraits of three remarkable women that make The Summer Guest so transporting. --Seattle Times"
The book blurs the line between firsthand experience and imagining worlds one cannot know, either because of blindness or the removals of time and geography, and renders authentic and memorable portraits of its three heroines. --New York Times Book Review"
Elegant. This alluring and deceptively ingenuous novel demands close consideration from its readers, contains an internal mystery, and packs a heartbreakingly lovely emotional punch. --Booklist (starred review)"
The interplay between past and present draws readers into the novel and enables them to believe they have actually met the great playwright. Illuminating. Anderson, a noted translator has a sure touch in dealing with her material. An impressive work, highly recommended to lovers of literary fiction. --Library Journal"
Inspired by a real friendship between Chekhov and a Ukranian family, you will fall in love with this gorgeously written historical fiction novel. --Serendipity Magazine"
The blind doctor, Zinaida Lintvaryova, stays in my heart long after I close Alison Anderson s beautifully written book. The young Chekhov himself cannot outshine Zinaida as she urgently explores life, science, art, family, and love, her passion defying death. --Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"
What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery of a diary.
During the long, hot summer of 1888, an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and Zinaida Lintvaryova, a young doctor. Recently blinded by illness, Zinaida has retreated to her family’s estate in the lush countryside of Eastern Ukraine, where she is keeping a diary to record her memories of her earlier life. But when the Chekhov family arrives to spend the summer at a dacha on the estate, and she meets the middle son Anton Pavlovich, her quiet existence is transformed by the connection they share. What begins as a journal kept simply to pass the time becomes an intimate, introspective narrative of Zinaida’s singular relationship with this doctor and writer of growing fame.
More than a century later, in 2014, the unexpected discovery of this diary represents Katya Kendall’s last chance to save her struggling London publishing house. Zinaida’s description of a gifted young man still coming to terms with his talent offers profound insight into a literary legend, but it also raises a tantalizing question: Did Chekhov, known only as a short story writer and playwright, write a novel over the course of their friendship that has since disappeared? The answer could change history, and finding it proves an irresistible challenge for Ana Harding, the translator Katya hires. Increasingly drawn into Zinaida and Chekhov’s world, Ana is consumed by her desire to find the “lost” book. As she delves deeper into the moving account of two lives changed by a meeting on a warm May night, she discovers that the manuscript is not the only mystery contained within the diary’s pages.
Inspired by the real friendship between Chekhov and the Lintvaryov family, landowners in the Ukraine, The Summer Guest is a masterful and utterly compelling literary novel that breathes life into a vanished world, while exploring the transformative power of art and the complexity of love and friendship.
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- VerlagHARPERCOLLINS
- Erscheinungsdatum2016
- ISBN 10 0062423363
- ISBN 13 9780062423368
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten400
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