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This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.
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Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
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- Titel
- Jigsaw
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sybille Bedford
- Verlag
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0907871798
- ISBN13
- 9780907871798
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Frankreich, Deutschland, 20. Jahrhundert, Südeuropa, Italien, England, Jugend, Kindheit, Autobiografische Romane
- Originaltitel
- Jigsaw
- Bewertung
- 4,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.