Isbn: 9781784633998 - the maternal element (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Siberia 1833.Forty-one-year-old Maria Mendeleeva is enduring her seventeenth pregnancy. Her husband Ivan has lost his sight, and her brother Vasily has left their grandfather's glass factory in ruins. The factory Maria hungered for as a child. On the brink of poverty and her family's only remaining hope, Maria must find a way to make the factory viable. She must find the power to bring her grandfather's dreams back to life. She must make the glass sing.The Maternal Elementis a sweeping, gripping epic with an extraordinary woman at its heart. Maria Mendeleeva - mother of Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the Periodic Table of the Elements - is a heroine like no other. A woman who refuses to be quashed by circumstance, Maria fights against the strictures of her time to gain an education for herself and for her children as she traverses the Urals of Russia seeking opportunity and safety for her family. A vivid and visceral portrait of a woman history has long since forgotten, The Maternal Element is a manifesto for truth, female empowerment and defying societal expectations.…

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