Sentences with phrase «beautiful novel tells»
Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to contemporary Australia, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence.
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A truly elegant novel told in beautiful elegaic prose.
This new novel, a sequel of sorts to The Mambo Kings, revisits the story of Nestor's brief but impassioned love affair with the beautiful Maria, told this time from Maria's perspective.
The story of the Cohens is seamlessly told from the various perspectives of siblings Sadie, Jo, Goldie, and Irving — each of whose worlds is upended over the course of the novel, the smooth veneer of their lives giving way to the vulnerabilities and secrets they've managed to keep hidden — and through the eyes of Lillian, the beautiful woman their father, Abe, took as a lover as his wife was dying.
Told in a haunting and powerful first - person narration that casts the streets of Washington, D.C., and Addis Ababa through Sepha's eyes, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears is a deeply affecting and unforgettable debut novel about what it means to lose a family and a country - and what it takes to create a new home.
This beautiful novel examines a Southern tradition — the do - it - yourself, at - home wedding — in all of its intricacies, from the cast of characters who make the big day a reality and the new relationships that form in such intimate settings to the surprises that wedding guests will tell stories about for years to come.
- Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World «Liam Callanan's new novel is charming and full of fabled accordion music and wonderfully Márquezian magic — and best of all it's told by a narrator I came to love, whose funny, honest, wryly snarky voice drew me in from the first line.»
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Shanghai Girls By Lisa See Set in the 1930s, See's richly detailed historical novel tells the story of Pearl and May Chin — two wealthy, beautiful, liberal - minded sisters who are coming of age in the magical city of Shanghai.