Strange Heart Beating
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Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. With
a name like that, with a bizarre family history like hers, it isn't
really surprising. Seb has a grip on her story and its aesthetics,
he knows how it should go. Except that he doesn't. Sorting through
her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of
unopened letters from a man whom Leda has never mentioned. It is a
loose detail in the thread of his narrative that, when pulled,
unravels the whole story of his marriage. Who is this stranger who
knew her so well? Why did she flee her home village in Latvia? What
happened to her as a young woman in London? Who, Seb wonders, was
his wife? Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides
to travel to Latvia to find her. He is met, instead, with the
living ghosts of her past, all of whom knew a fragment of Leda -
but none of whom are willing to share their secrets with him. A
darkly funny and seductive novel that confronts the black
undercurrent of possession inherent in love, and the impossibility
of ever truly knowing even those dearest to us, Strange Heart
Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both
acerbic and tender.
Výber kníh autorov
Granta Books ,
Eli Goldstone
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Granta Books,
Eli Goldstone
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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