The Gustav Sonata

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246701
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gustav Sonata: A Novel written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist. The novel follows Gustav’s family, tracing the roots of his mother’s anti-Semitism and its impact on her son and his beloved friend. Moving backward to the war years and the painful repercussions of an act of conscience, and forward through the lives and careers of the two men, one who becomes a hotel owner, the other a concert pianist, The Gustav Sonata explores the passionate love of childhood friendship as it is lost, transformed, and regained over a lifetime. It is a powerful and deeply moving addition to the beloved oeuvre of one of our greatest contemporary novelists.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784740039
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gustav Sonata written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up sheltered from the echoes of World War II, Gustav forges an intense relationship with a mercurial Jewish boy, Anton, a talented pianist who introduces him to the harsh realities of racism, tolerance, and cruelty during a friendship spanning half a century.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334598X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671886096
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Country written by Rose Tremain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain that she is really a male trapped in a female body, Mary Ward pursues this elusive identity, much to the consternation of her mother, her brother, and a neighbor's son.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246728
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Lover written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A collection of stylish daring, tonal mastery and smart, tough love.”—New York Times Book Review Trapped in a London apartment, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster’s cottage, miles from Moscow. A young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat instead begins a torrid relationship with a construction worker. A father, finally free of his daughter’s demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. A middle-aged woman cares for her injured mother at Christmas. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor, Daphne du Maurier. Rose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories. In her precise yet sensuous style, she lays bare the soul of her characters—the admirable, the embarrassing, the unfulfilled, the sexy, and the adorable—to uncover a dazzling range of human emotions and desires.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423100
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colour written by Rose Tremain and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.

Author : Kelly Cherry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941209554
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelve Women in a Country Called America written by Kelly Cherry and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while also navigating the maze of self. From a young woman's nightmare piano lesson to an elderly woman's luminous last breath, Twelve Women in a Country Called America takes readers on a journey sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always enlightening.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240282
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merivel: A Man of His Time written by Rose Tremain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merivel is an unforgettable hero—soulful, funny, outrageous and achingly sad. His unmistakable, self-mocking voice speaks directly to us down the centuries. From the Orange Prize–winning author Rose Tremain comes a brilliant and picaresque novel of seventeenth-century England. In the wake of the gaudy years of the Restoration, Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King’s friend or the King’s slave? In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court of Versailles, where—inevitably—misadventures ensue.

Author : Anne Redmon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743418263
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music & Silence written by Anne Redmon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young English lutenist named Peter Claire who, in 1629, arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra.

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671035703
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way I Found Her written by Rose Tremain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding and bittersweet novel of a 13-year-old boy who gets caught up in an unusual and perilous romance and must confront adult truths before he is ready.