Every Day, Every Hour

✍ Scribed by Liesl Schillinger

• Publisher: Penguin Group US;Viking
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 120 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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An exquisitely romantic debut novel that captures the longing of lost --and sometimes found--love**

It is the mid-1960s in a small seaside town in Croatia. Two children, Luka and Dora, meet on their first day of kindergarten. Luka faints the first time he sees Dora and she wakes him with a kiss. The two become inseparable. Over the next few years, they wander the shores of their town, lying on their special rock by the sea as Luka paints--until Dora's parents move to Paris. Bereft, Luka becomes a solitary young man, prey to the needs of his family, but a promising painter. In Paris, Dora blossoms and becomes a successful actress.

When Luka comes to Paris for a show of his paintings, a chance encounter brings them together. Now adults, they fall back in love, and their feelings are given resonance by a shared adoration of Pablo Neruda. Timing and fate, however, seem determined to keep them apart. Like The Solitude of Prime Numbers and _One...