Simple Prayers - Couverture souple

Golding, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552996165 ISBN 13 : 9780552996167

Editeur : Black Swan, 1994

Synopsis

The lagoon, 14th-century Venice. An island where superstition reigns, where life and death are created by magical equations, and where the land holds simple truths. The lagoon brings forth a corpse, washed up on the island's rustic shores and foreshadowing terrible change.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his debut novel, Golding makes sense of the current AIDS crisis as he envisions another time and place transformed by a fatal horror. Take a journey back six centuries to a secluded island in the Venice lagoon--a wondrous place where superstition reigns and life and death are created by magical equations.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This mesmerising narrative iridescent with the colours of medieval Italy, is steeped in both authentic details and magical realism. It creates a long ago place that has chilling familiarity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552996165
• ISBN 13: 9780552996167
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible