While the gods were sleeping
Mortier, Erwin, 1965-2014
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Helena's mother always said she was a born poetess. It was not a compliment. Now an old woman, Helena looks back on her life and tries to capture the past, filling notebook after notebook with memories of her respectable, rigid upbringing, her unyielding mother, her loyal father, her golden-haired brother. She remembers how, at their uncle's country house in the summer of 1914, their stately bourgeois life of good manners, white linen and afternoon tea collapsed into ruins. And how, with war, came a kind of liberation amidst the mud and rubble - and the appearance of a young English photographer who transformed her existence.
Main title:
While the gods were sleeping / Erwin Mortier ; translated by Paul Vincent.
Author:
Mortier, Erwin, 1965-, authorVincent, Paul (Paul F.), translator
Imprint:
London : Pushkin, 2014.
Collation:
368 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Dutch.
ISBN:
9781782270171 (hbk)1782270175
Dewey class:
839.3'137
Language:
EnglishDutch
Subject:
BRN:
898152
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