In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from th The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant od authora Linda Grant a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Linda Grant |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
304 |
| Rok vydání |
2009 |
| Žánr |
beletrie |
| Typ |
filmy |
| Nakladatelství |
Virago |
