Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriages and affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elder Winter in the Air - Sylvia Townsend Warner od authora Sylvia Townsend Warner a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
304 |
Rok vydání |
2022 |
Nakladatelství |
Faber and Faber |