Distant Music - Couverture rigide

Langley, Lee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701168366 ISBN 13 : 9780701168360

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2001

Synopsis

This novel recreates the same heroine through several historical periods, and weaves stories around her love for a clever and sympathetic man, who through the centuries represents the powerful attractions of the Jewish tradition. We first meet Esperanca in timeless 15th-century Madeira.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A richly imaginative novel of love, loss, time and the rise and fall of a great maritime empire, that sends two thwarted lovers spiralling through the chaos of history.

The story begins in 1429 on Madeira, when a peasant girl meets a boy- a Jewish outsider- from a Portuguese sailing ship. Esperança and Emmanuel know they must part when the ship sails. From that first meeting and parting, others follow...

Emmanuel is in turn sailor, mapmaker, bookseller, jazz musician; Esperança an illiterate peasant, a rich girl in Faro and a clever, bookish recluse who confronts a murderer in nineteenth-century Lisbon. In twentieth-century London, Esperança is faced with a double incarnation, one of the true Emmanuel and the other a shadow. Over the centuries the couple face peril and tenderness. Each life is short. What survives is love.

Revue de presse

"A rich, evocative novel...Haunting and magical" (Daily Mail)

"Lee Langley has a marvellous ability to evoke places...With originality and elegance she carried me enthralled into disparate, related and brilliantly illuminated worlds. Distant Music is a little masterpiece" (Sunday Telegraph)

"One can almost feel the scent of orange blossom, the brilliance of the sun reflected on the sea, the ripe grape on the vine, the intoxicating atmosphere of romance and passion" (Independent)

"Thoughtful and inventive...Elegantly written and quietly affecting" (Sunday Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701168366
• ISBN 13: 9780701168360
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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