By the Grand Canal - Couverture souple

Riviere, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340770414 ISBN 13 : 9780340770412

Editeur : Sceptre, 2005

Synopsis

The entrancing and seductive new novel from the acclaimed author of ECHOES OF WAR A British diplomat living in Venice in the aftermath of WWI, Hugh Thurne is in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend's widow, Violet Mancroft, arrives from England. Still absorbed by grief, Violet is unsure what direction her relationship with Hugh might now take, as well as anxious about her son, Robert, who has fallen in love with Gloria Venier, a young Grand Canal girl. Unlike Violet, Giacomo Venier is amused by his daughter's fledgling relationship - but he is dying, leaving his wife Valentina to maintain their dilapidated palace and face financial ruin, and to bring up their teenage children alone. From the English coast to Venice and Britain's dominions in the East, this is a novel about empires and their crises, about the desolation and the hope after the Great War, about death, time and memory, and innocent - and less innocent - love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

William Rivi?re was born in 1954 and brought up in Norfolk. After leaving Cambridge, he spent several years in Venice, and later worked in Japan and travelled extensively around the Far East. He is married to a painter, and teaches at the University of Urbino in Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340770414
• ISBN 13: 9780340770412
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible