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Elizabeth Finch
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Winner of the Booker Prize She will change the way you see the world . . . 'I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded' The Times Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration. Neil is just one of many who fell under her spell during his time in her class. Tasked with unpacking her notebooks after her death, Neil encounters once again Elizabeth's astonishing ideas on the past and on how to make sense of the present. But Elizabeth was much more than a scholar. Her secrets are waiting to be revealed . . . and will change Neil's view of the world forever. 'Enthralling . . . A connoisseur and master of irony himself, [Barnes] fills this book with instances of its exhilarating power' Sunday Times 'A lyrical, thoughtful and intriguing exploration of love, grief and the collective myths of history' Booklist
Elizabeth Finch
From the Booker Award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, sparking a man's deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography. "I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met this year have faded." —John Self, The Times (UK) This novel of unrequited platonic love takes aim at the singular character of the exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, adrift in his 30s, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deeply fascinated by this private, withholding, yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his children drift from his grasp, Neil hangs tight to F...
Elizabeth Finch - Julian Barnes
Acest roman fascinant gravitează în jurul stoicei și exigentei Elizabeth Finch, lector universitar, un personaj cu adevărat memorabil. Neil, naratorul, se înscrie la cursul ei de cultură și civilizație pentru adulți de toate vârstele și este captivat de personalitatea acesteia. Un roman provocator și experimental, care se concentrează pe necesitatea de a reexamina și de a reevalua constant ceea ce credem că știm despre istorie, dar și despre dragoste sau prietenie. Cursul ei schimbă felul în care vedem lumea. În Elizabeth Finch, vom regăsi tot ceea ce prețuim la Barnes: atenția sa pentru formele neortodoxe ale iubirii dintre doi oameni, un viraj convingător către non...
Elizabeth Finch
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Elizabeth Finch
Elizabeth Finch é professora de Cultura e Civilização para adultos de todas as idades. Uma mulher de presença vívida, reservada e autoritária, com caráter estoicamente singular, EF expõe ideias que desvendam antigas filosofias e exploram acontecimentos históricos decisivos que mostram como dar sentido à vida contemporânea. Ao morrer, Finch deixa seus escritos e diários para um ex-aluno, Neil, que torna-se o historiador da professora e, a partir de uma investigação criteriosa dos mistérios de sua existência, compõe um retrato fragmentado daquela mulher enigmática que, com pontos de vista radicais, o inspirava e estimulava a todos a pensar de forma independente. Como homenage...
Elizabeth Finch
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. "I’ll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I’ve met this year have faded." –John Self, The Times This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class “Culture and Civilisation,” taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this pri...
An Extravagant Death
In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance to satisfy an unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, he begins to receive intr...
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