Giorgio Van Straten - In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten St
| Schrijver: | Giorgio Van Straten |
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| Titel: | In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes |
| ISBN: | 9781782273745 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Pushkin Press |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2018, Paperback, 144p |
| Prijs: | € 9,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books.\nTaking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality.\nAs gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is t
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