Sepulchre - Couverture rigide

Mosse, Kate

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0399154671 ISBN 13 : 9780399154676

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 2008

Synopsis

Conducting research in southwest France, American graduate student Meredith Martin finds the grand old hotel where she is staying eerily familiar and experiences strange dreams and ions about a sister and brother whose it to the same region a century earlier had unexpected otherworldly consequences. By the author of Labyrinth .

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews)

In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim that Léonie's late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds...

More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-le- Bains while researching the life of Claude Debussy. Haunted by a Tarot reading she had in Paris-and possessing the mysterious deck of cards-she checks into a grand old hotel built on the site of a famous mountain estate destroyed by fire in 1896. There, the pack of Tarot cards and a piece of 19th-century music known as Sepulchre 1891 hold the key to her fate-just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier.

Revue de presse

SEPULCHRE is a compulsive, fantastical, historical yarn. Mosse's skill lies in the precise nature of her storytelling (OBSERVER)

Ghosts, duels, murders, ill-fated love and conspiracy ... addictively readable (DAILY MAIL)

[Mosse is] a powerful storyteller with an abundant imagination (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

Brilliantly absorbing ... Richly evocative and full of compelling twists and turns (RED)

Mosse's gifts for historical fiction are considerable ... Mosse does what good popular historical novelists do best - make the past enticingly otherworldly, while also claiming it as our own (INDEPENDENT)

The best of the Brits ... Where Mosse really wins is in the writing department. She's the real role model there (DAILY MIRROR)

Her narrative lyricism, beautifully drawn female characters and deft journey from the past to the present day, are also a cut above (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0399154671
• ISBN 13: 9780399154676
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 572
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible