Two women, strangers to each other, notice the same advertisement in a London newspaper: a medieval castle in Italy, wisteria, sunshine, April. They cannot quite afford it alone. They invite two more women, also strangers, also grey with English winter. What happens in the castle above the Mediterranean is not a plot exactly — it is more like a slow chemical reaction in which four people who have forgotten what they feel like gradually remember. Von Arnim's novel is a comedy of a very particular kind: warm, astute, and quietly wise about the way that beauty works on people who have been too long without it. Each of the four women is unhappy for different reasons, and each discovers something different in the Italian light. That it sounds slight and proves so quietly powerful is the measure of the writer's art.
The Enchanted April
Kom i gang med denne boken i dag for 0 kr
- Få full tilgang til alle bøkene i appen i prøveperioden
- Ingen forpliktelser, si opp når du vil
Forfatter:
Språk:
engelsk
Format:
The enchanted April
Essential Novelists - Elizabeth Von Arnim : dark tragi-comedy
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Vera
The Enchanted April :
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
The Enchanted April - Audiobook
Elizabeth and Her German Garden : Escape to a Secret Garden
Die größten Heldinnen der Literatur (50 Romane in einem Band)
Die Rebellinnen der Literatur - Klassiker, die man kennen muss
100 Weibliche Meisterwerke - Klassiker, die man kennen muss : Jane Eyre, Die Vagabundin, Frankenstein, Indiana, Kleine Frauen, Stolz und Vorurteil, Middlemarch, Mrs Dalloway, Das innere Schloss