The Green Table - Couverture souple

Durdey, Tricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909077763 ISBN 13 : 9781909077768

Editeur : Cinnamon Press, 2015

Synopsis

When Hedda Brandt and other members of Kurt Jooss s dance company flee Germany in 1933, Hedda imagines she is going to a place free from the prejudice and threats that have overtaken her country.

Staying behind to teach dance when Jooss and other members leave the Netherlands for England, Hedda encounters Katje, a girl who has seen and been enthralled by the performance and wants to learn to dance.

But these are dangerous times and as Nazi Occupation changes all their lives. Determined to defy new regulations that demand dance should conform to rigid ideology, Hedda is drawn towards resistance, but with her life more and more at risk, matters are only complicated by the prospect of love with a much younger man, Kai Hoffman, whose family have befriended Hedda.

Against a background of oppression, disappearances and terror, Hedda and Katje assert the power of dance, resistance and life in this gripping debut novel that takes real events and characters as its starting point.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tricia Durdey trained as a dancer and choreographer in London and Amsterdam in the late 1970s, and worked for many years as choreographer and dancer. Ten years ago she made the decision to concentrate on writing, and has since had short fiction published by Cinnamon Press, Chester University Press, Myslexia, and Matter (Sheffield Hallam University).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinnamon Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909077763
• ISBN 13: 9781909077768
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible