The Chemistry of Tears - Brossura

Peter Carey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571280013 ISBN 13: 9780571280018

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2013

Riassunto

London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Linked by the mysterious automaton, Catherine and Henry's stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

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Recensione

'Carey is a wily and supremely confident storyteller on a grand scale' --The Times

'A new Peter Carey novel is cause for joy' --Guardian

'Like most of Carey's work, the novel is extraordinarily allusive and joyously inventive' --Daily Telegraph

'Alive with the vivid evocation of place and period that is always Carey's forte.' --Sunday Times

Descrizione del libro

The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey - the twice Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang - is the story of an automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, and a secret love story . . .

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571280013
• ISBN 13: 9780571280018
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288