THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE - Boyne, John
Salamandra While accompanying his wife Zoya, dying in a London hospital, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev recalls the life they have shared for sixty- five years, a life marked by a great secret that has never come to light. The memories are crowded into a succession of unforgettable images, from that distant day when he left his miserable Georgi hometown to join the guard of Alexis Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II. Thus, the lavish life in the Winter Palace, the intimacies imperial family, the events preceding the Bolshevik Revolution and, finally, the imprisonment and subsequent execution of the Romanovs are interspersed with the hard-exile in Paris and London in a beautiful love story of an unlikely, while a fascinating story historic and intimate touching tragedy. With an absolute command of pace and suspense, John Boyne keeps interest alive until the final pages, in which an unexpected outcome will, once again, a deep impression on readers.
Synopsis
While accompanying his wife Zoya, dying in a London hospital, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev recalls the life they have shared for sixty- five years, a life marked by a great secret that has never come to light. The memories are crowded into a succession of unforgettable images, from that distant day when he left his miserable Georgi hometown to join the guard of Alexis Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II. Thus, the lavish life in the Winter Palace, the intimacies imperial family, the events preceding the Bolshevik Revolution and, finally, the imprisonment and subsequent execution of the Romanovs are interspersed with the hard-exile in Paris and London in a beautiful love story of an unlikely, while a fascinating story historic and intimate touching tragedy. With an absolute command of pace and suspense, John Boyne keeps interest alive until the final pages, in which an unexpected outcome will, once again, a deep impression on readers.
Having wowed audiences and critics with The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, best-selling fiction book in Spain in 2007 and 2008 - and seduce thousands of readers with his next book, Mutiny on the Bounty, John Boyne again shows a special gift of narrative to address major historical events from unfamiliar perspectives, projecting on what is already known and surprising new light.
0 comments:
Post a Comment