The Transit of Venus

Autor*innen

• Shirley Hazzard

Parameter

• 352 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Australien
• Belletristik
• Historische Romane
• Klassiker

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This book tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Einband: Paperback