✅ Poštovné ZADARMO nad 39€ ✅ Knižná akcia každý mesiac ✅ Bezpečný nákup The book that only she could have written: This brilliant novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean war is now being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year with a new introduction by John Banville.
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.
Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
Recenzie a kritiky
Rok vydania:
2013ISBN:
9780349139036Počet strán:
224Väzba:
brožovanáŠtýl: historický, vojnovýJazyk: angličtina
