Akin
Autor Emma Donoghueen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 2019
A
retired
New
York
professor's
life
is
thrown
into
chaos
when
he
takes
a
young
great-nephew
to
the
French
Riviera,
in
hopes
of
uncovering
his
own
mother's
wartime
secrets
in
the
next
masterpiece
fromNew
York
Timesbestselling
author
Emma
Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his long-awaited first trip back to Nice, prompted by a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of his eleven-year-old great-nephew, a stranger to him. Michael's mother is in prison and his father is dead of an apparent overdose: he urgently needs someone to take him in.
Plagued by guilt and a feeling of duty to his dead sister (Michael's grandmother), Noah agrees to foster the kid 'just for couple of weeks', and takes him along on his visit to Nice. This unlikely duo, both feeling adrift in their lives and suffering from culture shock, argue about everything from steak frites to Snapchat.
Noah is disappointed by how much Nice has changed since he left, though the sea breeze is familiar and the old buildings still charming. When sharp-eyed Michael identifies the historic Hotel Excelsior in one of Noah's photographs, they decide to check in - but once inside their luxury suite, Noah's perception of his ancestral heritage starts to crack.
Shocking
stories
of
the
Nazi
occupation
surface:
a
hotel
re-purposed
for
torture,
a
secret
resistance
movement,
and
Noah's
mysterious
mother
on
the
front
lines
of
history.
As
dark
truths
about
this
famous
tourist
mecca
come
to
light,
Noah
learns
to
appreciate
Michael's
street-smart
wit
and
ease
with
technology.
He
finally
grasps
the
great
risks
people
in
all
ages
have
taken
for
their
kin.
Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that madeRooma huge bestseller,Akinis a heart wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their family's painful story and start to write a new one together.
Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that madeRooma huge bestseller,Akinis a heart wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their family's painful story and start to write a new one together.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316491990
ISBN-10: 0316491993
Pagini: 304
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316491993
Pagini: 304
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Born
in
Dublin
in
1969,Emma
Donoghueis
an
Irish
emigrant
twice
over:
she
spent
eight
years
in
Cambridge
doing
a
PhD
in
eighteenth-century
literature
before
moving
to
London,
Ontario,
where
she
lives
with
her
French
partner
and
their
two
children.Her
fascination
with
Nice
developed
over
the
two
years
her
family
have
spent
in
that
city.
She
also
migrates
between
genres,
writing
literary
history,
biography,
stage
and
radio
plays
as
well
as
fairy
tales
and
short
stories.
She
is
best
known
for
her
novels,
which
range
from
the
historical
(Slammerkin,Life
Mask,Landing,The
Sealed
Letter)
to
the
contemporary
(Stir-Fry,Hood,Landing).
Her
international
bestsellerRoomwas
aNew
York
TimesBest
Book
of
2010
and
was
a
finalist
for
the
Man
Booker,
Commonwealth,
and
Orange
Prizes.
For
more
information,
visit
www.emmadonoghue.com.