Sarah Winman
Author
Language
Español
Description
Esta es casi una historia de amor. Ellis y Michael tienen doce años cuando se convierten en amigos inseparables, y durante mucho tiempo lo hacen todo juntos, como pasear en bici por las calles de Oxford, aprender a nadar, descubrir la poesía y hasta esquivar los puños de un padre autoritario. De repente, esta profunda amistad pasa a ser algo más. Una década más tarde, Ellis está casado con una mujer, Annie, y Michael ha desaparecido de sus...
2) Tin man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married...
3) Still life
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
Author
Publisher
Tinder Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfill a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Azbuka/Azbuka-Attikus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
"This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married...
