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The Daughters A Novel

Name: The Daughters
Author: Adrienne Celt

Auteur: Adrienne Celt

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Adrienne Celt

Engels
Hardcover
9781631490453
08 september 2015
272 pagina's

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Winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award

In this virtuosic debut, a world-class soprano seeks to reclaim her voice from the curse that winds through her family tree.

Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her family.

When Lulu was a child, her strong-willed grandmother Ada filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in the Polish countryside. A fantastical lore took hold—an incantatory mix of young love, desperate hope, and one sinister bargain that altered the family's history forever. Since that fateful pact, Ada tells Lulu, each mother in their family has been given a daughter, but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.

Ada was the first to recognize young Lulu's transcendent talent, spotting it early on in their cramped Chicago apartment, then watching her granddaughter ascend to dizzying heights in packed international concert halls. But as the curse predicted, Lulu's mother, a sultry and elusive jazz singer, disappeared into her bitterness in the face of Lulu's superior talent—before disappearing from her family's life altogether. Now, in the early days of her own daughter's life, Lulu now finds herself weighing her overwhelming love for her child against the burden of her family's past.

In incandescent prose, debut novelist Adrienne Celt skillfully intertwines the sensuous but precise physicality of both motherhood and music. She infuses The Daughters with the spirit of the rusalka, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired Dvorák's classic opera. The result is a tapestry of secrets, affairs, and unimaginable sacrifices, revealing a family legacy laced with brilliance, tragedy, and most mysterious and seductive of all—the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one that came before.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 september 2015
Aantal pagina's: 272
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Adrienne Celt
Hoofduitgeverij: Liveright Pub Corp

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 28 mm
Product lengte: 218 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm
Verpakking lengte: 218 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 370 g

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EAN: 9781631490453

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Literaire romans

Mythen & Legenden

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Taal: Engels
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