Museum Guard - Brossura

Norman, Howard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330370103 ISBN 13: 9780330370103

Casa editrice: Picador, 2000

Riassunto

An amazing and beautifully written novel about two museum guards, one an eccentric uncle, the other his orphaned nephew, DeFoe. By day they spend their time curating an art collection, breaking the silence of the museum with heated conversation; by night we learn about their loves and past histories. DeFoe is in love with Imogen, the young caretaker of the sole small Jewish cemetery in Halifax Nova Scotia, where the novel begins in 1938. She becomes obssessed with a Dutch painting called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and abandons her life to look for nobility in the intensity of life in Amsterdam for Jews in the late 30s. The book is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action, with a startling conclusion. With echoes of the holocaust and of a world lost but not forgotten, this is a poignant and perfect novel of great power.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

'A novel that opens like a Chinese box, revealing astonishing brilliance, drawer by drawer' The Scotsman

L'autore:

Howard Norman is the author of several novels, including The Museum Guard and The Haunting of L., both published by Picador. He lives with his family in Vermont.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0330370103
• ISBN 13: 9780330370103
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320