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The Piano Maker

par Kurt Palka
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The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin.

     Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life.
     The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever.
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Éditeur: McClelland & Stewart

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780771071416
  • Taille de fichier : 2099 KB
  • Date de publication : 29 décembre 2015

livre numérique au format EPUB

  • ISBN: 9780771071416
  • Taille de fichier : 2099 KB
  • Date de publication : 29 décembre 2015

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OverDrive Read
livre numérique au format EPUB

sujets

Fiction Littérature Fiction historique

Langues

Anglais

The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin.

     Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life.
     The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever.
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Fiction Littérature Fiction historique
  • Détails

    Éditeur:
    McClelland & Stewart

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780771071416
    Taille de fichier : 2099 KB
    Date de publication : 29 décembre 2015

    livre numérique au format EPUB
    ISBN: 9780771071416
    Taille de fichier : 2099 KB
    Date de publication : 29 décembre 2015

  • Créateurs
  • Formats
    OverDrive Read
    livre numérique au format EPUB
  • Langues
    Anglais