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Carregando... A Desert in Bohemiade Jill Paton Walsh
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I did not enjoy this as much as I recall enjoying Jill Paton Walsh's previous novel, Knowledge of Angels. But still there is something about her writing that I like. I got a little bogged down at points but am glad I finished. It is about being exiled from home, about the depredations of first the Nazis and then the Communists on a fictional East European country and a group of interconnected characters. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
A brilliant, moving and thought-provoking novel from the author of Knowledge of Angels. It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others - the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his partisans, and Count Michael Blansky, who is the castle's ancestral owner.But the war has changed things for ever. In a storm of ideological change, the existing order and the aristocratic heritage of ten generations are brushed aside by the arrival of Communism, and Count Michael must join the flood of refugees if he is to survive. He leaves behind a legacy which will entangle those involved for the next forty years in more ways than they can possibly imagine.As divided post-war Europe unravels around them, they must make what they can of lives buffeted by circumstance. For many, individual freedom is at best problematic. For better or worse, communities are destroyed, families uprooted, and the ties of trust, friendship and duty which bind them together are broken down by the implacably irresolvable forces at work. Told through the eyes of nine characters who live through the forty years between the end of the war and the fall of Communism, A Desert in Bohemia is a complex and enthralling testament to the power and powerlessness of the individual in challenging times. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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