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The Bequest - Hardcover

De Falbe, John

 
9781843430391: The Bequest
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1843430398 ISBN 13: 9781843430391
Verlag: Harvill Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

1864. After years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederick Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying chaperoning his mother, sister and two marriageable nieces for a season on the Riviera. There he meets Emmeline Leslie, a young Australian widower and veteran of the bush. The differences between their complex histories enrich their ensuing romance, but frustrate their search for a home. The Bequest takes the reader from Italy to France, North Africa, Greece, Siberia, Greenland, Australia, and finally England. It is a novel about identity and belonging; about the place of history and memory in uprooted lives. Objects - many of which are pictured, such as an ivory China trade puzzle, a jewelled pencil, a clock - have an almost talismanic role in the interlocking stories of this rich and moving tale.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JOHN DE FALBE is director of the team of booksellers at the legendary John Sandoe, one of London's outstanding literary bookshops. He is the author of The Glass Night and a regular critic for the Spectator.

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Verlag
Harvill Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843430398
ISBN 13 
9781843430391
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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