Tree Of Angels - Couverture rigide

Sumner, Penny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0752861263 ISBN 13 : 9780752861265

Editeur : Orion, 2004

Synopsis

A house carved fine as a jewellery box, a painted garden, an angel in a palm tree. These are only some of the marvels of the Russian estate on which Nina Karsavina grows up, surrounded by her beautiful mother, her eccentric father, Katya her elder sister and the housekeeper Darya who teaches her the old Russian folktales and traditions. But when her father gradually loses his mind after the death of her mother, Nina takes the difficult decision to leave her homeland behind and to marry a complete stranger. She arrives in England on the brink of the First World War and must adjust to a society very different from her own. Meanwhile, her sister Katya settles in Nice with her feckless husband. Over the next eighty years, the family will scatter across the globe in the wake of the Russian revolution and two world wars. It is only when Nina's own granddaughter Julia, an artist, begins a search for her roots that the family's tragic history can be pieced together for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Penny Sumner has worked as a waitress, a photographer at a dolphin pool and a seller of antiquarian books. She came to England from Australia to do postgraduate studies at Oxford and currently lives with her family in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she works as course leader for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria. She has edited a number of anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orion
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752861263
• ISBN 13: 9780752861265
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible