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Intertwining lives unravel history's hidden treasures.
"Love and Treasure" is a tapestry of intersecting narratives that sweep across a century, blending the historical and the personal in a way that illuminates the immense value of lost artifacts—not just in their material worth, but as vessels of immense emotional and historical significance. If you're drawn to stories that connect the past and present through vivid characters and richly painted backdrops, this novel will satisfy your yearning for depth and narrative complexity. It's perfect for readers who appreciate novels that don’t just tell a story, but also explore the profound impact of history on individual lives.
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ISBN: 9781444763119
Authors:
Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Two Roads
Date of Publication: 2014-09-04
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Feminism,
Historical Romance,
War,
Japanese Literature,
Asian Literature,
Race,
Literary Criticism,
World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.52
(rated by 4373 readers)
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A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siecle Budapest - who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three fierce women, each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history of our times. And at the centre of Love and Treasure, nested like a photograph hidden in a locket, a mystery: where does the worth of a people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift, when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more? In an intricately constructed narrative that is by turns funny and tragic, thrilling and harrowing, with all the expertise and narrative drive that readers have come to expect from her work, Waldman traces the unlikely journey, from 1914 Budapest to post-war Salzburg to present-day New York, of the peacock pendant whose significance changes - token of friendship, love-offering, unlucky talisman - with the changes of fortune undergone by her characters as they find themselves caught up in the ebb and flow of modern European history. Spanning continents and a hundred years of turbulent history, encompassing war and revolution, the history of art, feminism and psychoanalysis, depicting the range of human feeling from the darkness of a shattered Europe to the ordinary heartbreaks of a contemporary New York woman, Love and Treasure marks the full maturity of a remarkable writer."An ambitious, perceptive novel." GUARDIAN "A wonderfully imaginative writer." WASHINGTON POST
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Intertwining lives unravel history's hidden treasures.
"Love and Treasure" is a tapestry of intersecting narratives that sweep across a century, blending the historical and the personal in a way that illuminates the immense value of lost artifacts—not just in their material worth, but as vessels of immense emotional and historical significance. If you're drawn to stories that connect the past and present through vivid characters and richly painted backdrops, this novel will satisfy your yearning for depth and narrative complexity. It's perfect for readers who appreciate novels that don’t just tell a story, but also explore the profound impact of history on individual lives.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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