Long-buried secrets and resentments bubble lazily to the surface over a few short weeks when Nina, a London photographer and artist, goes to the English countryside to help her outwardly perfect older sister Isabel, who has just suffered through a difficult birth. Though the household--Isabel's husb
Talking to the Dead
β Scribed by Sylvia Watanabe
- Book ID
- 110674387
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307773753
- ASIN
- B004J4WMRC
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β¦ Synopsis
By an 0. Henry Award-winning young writer, these interrelated stories paint a moving, many-faceted portrait of a Hawaiian village, where ancient traditions and modern values meet in a magical mix of the marvelous and the real.
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