Three Women in a Mirror - Couverture souple

Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609451228 ISBN 13 : 9781609451226

Editeur : Europa Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Anne lives in Flanders in the 16th century and she cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. It is the age of the Inquisition and she is tragically branded a heretic. Hanna lives in 20th-century Vienna as a young noblewoman - she will find a method for uncovering her malaise in a new cure - developed by Sigmund Freud. Anny is a modern Hollywood star. She is searching for meaning in a world where the only apparent thing of any value is money. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with their age.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Anna, Hanna, and Anny. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect—a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations.

Anne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century. She’s a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis; she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. It is the age of the counterreformation and the Inquisition. Her serenity and the loose tongues of those who secretly envy her, result in her being branded a heretic, with tragic consequences. Hanna lives in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century. She is a young noblewoman, dissatisfied with bourgeois conventions, who undertakes a journey of self-discovery. After much sadness she will find a method for uncovering the roots of her malaise in a new cure developed by a Viennese doctor by the name of Sigmund Freud. Anny is a Hollywood star of the 2000s. Addicted to celebrity and to variety of illicit substances she is searching for meaning in world where the only apparent thing of any value is money. Both her curse and her solace, acting will give her the key to a open a new chapter in her life where she will find love, companionship, and the meaning she has been searching for.

Revue de presse :

“There is a surprising sweetness to Schmitt’s stories of redemption and reconciliation. They carry a slight pleasant aftertaste, a lingering hint of delight.”—The Boston Globe

“Schmitt’s stories capture a quirky, clever, feminist, very French sensibility."—Publishers Weekly

“Concerto in Memory of an Angel cannot fail to delight anyone who likes their literature ‘with accompaniment’ (it really does make a superb concerto), as well as all those—and they are many—who ponder the meaning of life . . . A small masterpiece.”–Le Parisien

“Moral fables, gilded mini-legends: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s stories are fiendishly efficient. Schmitt is a prodigious story-teller with a style both elegant and assured.”—Les Echos

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Europa Editions
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1609451228
• ISBN 13: 9781609451226
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400