"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." - James Wood, New Yorker A week before her thirtieth birthday, Natlya's life as a dutiful wife and mother is upended as the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of suppressed emotion
A Month in the Country
β Scribed by Carr, J L
- Book ID
- 108921107
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141905822
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β¦ Synopsis
In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave.Out of their meeting comes a deeper communion and a catching up of the old primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War.
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