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Love Is Blind

Autor William Boyd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2019
When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive--and forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie's passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love Is Blind is a dazzling work of historical fiction that unfolds across fin de siècle Europe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780525564447
ISBN-10: 0525564446
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Notă biografică

William Boyd is the author of fifteen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a BAFTA-winning Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel Award, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy Book Club selection; the Sunday Times best seller Waiting for Sunrise; and Solo, a James Bond novel. William Boyd lives in London and France.

Recenzii

Boyd on form isthe ultimate in immersive fiction,andLove is Blindis Boydat the top of his game. . . magnificent
Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. Thisfine, touching and cleverbook is the best thing he's written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation
The book begins and continues at acracking pace- or perhaps a cinematic stride - with scenes, scenarios, set-pieces and minor characters aplenty, all of which and all of whom might easily detain another writer for an entire book . . .He makes it look easy: he's a pro
Boyd's talents as arollicking storytelling[are] full on display in thishistorical blockbuster
A deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination
He has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries
Boyd is a brilliant novelist
William Boyd is arguably one of Britain's finest living writers

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'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times
'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week

This is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.
When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth.
Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers.
'Boyd is back on a form few of his contemporaries can match. This fine, touching and clever book is the best thing he's written since [Any Human Heart] and deserves similar adulation' Observer
'Boyd's talents as a rollicking storytelling [are] full on display in this historical blockbuster' Metro