The BequestHarvill, 2003 - Всего страниц: 325 "1864. After years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederick Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying chaperoning his mother, sister and two marriageable nieces for a season on the Riviera. There he meets Emmeline Leslie, a young Australian widower and veteran of the bush. The differences between their complex histories enrich their ensuing romance, but frustrate their search for a home. The Bequest takes the reader from Italy to France, North Africa, Greece, Siberia, Greenland, Australia, and finally England. It is a novel about identity and belonging; about the place of history and memory in uprooted lives. Objects - many of which are pictured, such as an ivory China trade puzzle, a jewelled pencil, a clock - have an almost talismanic role in the interlocking stories of this rich and moving tale." |
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... seemed to welcome them to the vernal cemetery . Frederik raised his hat . " Indeed , " he said . But he did not wish to be diverted . The end of the Roman hunting season was marked by the Races , which took place in the grounds of a ...
... seemed to welcome them to the vernal cemetery . Frederik raised his hat . " Indeed , " he said . But he did not wish to be diverted . The end of the Roman hunting season was marked by the Races , which took place in the grounds of a ...
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... seemed possible – or almost everything , for she did persuade him to give up Canning Downs . But it seemed that rest was something to be found in the disposition rather than circumstances , and recovery eluded him . There was no reason ...
... seemed possible – or almost everything , for she did persuade him to give up Canning Downs . But it seemed that rest was something to be found in the disposition rather than circumstances , and recovery eluded him . There was no reason ...
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... seemed resigned to the erosion of his world in a way that seemed both mysterious and unalterable to him , and which Frederik found surpris- ing in a brother of Emmie's . He told Frederik of his visit to Scotland in 1835 and his return ...
... seemed resigned to the erosion of his world in a way that seemed both mysterious and unalterable to him , and which Frederik found surpris- ing in a brother of Emmie's . He told Frederik of his visit to Scotland in 1835 and his return ...
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