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The Dictionary of Animal Languages

✍ Scribed by Sopinka, Heidi

Book ID
110482803
Publisher
Penguin Canada
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
575 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143196426

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✦ Synopsis

A novel of love, longing, and art set in interwar Paris,The Dictionary of Animal Languages will appeal to readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Disappeared.
Ivory Frame is a renowned artist. Now in her nineties, the famously reclusive painter remains devoted to her work. She has never married, never had a family, never had a child. So when a letter arrives disclosing that she has a granddaughter living in New York, her world is turned upside down and the past is brought painfully to life.
Β Β Β Β Disowned by her bourgeois family, the young Ivory had gone to interwar Paris to study art, and quickly found her true home among the avant-garde painters and poets who crowd the city's cafes. In fellow painter Tacita, she finds the sister she never had. In the Zoological Gardens, she finds a subject for her art capable of fascinating her endlessly. And in Lev, thebrooding, haunted Russian emigre...

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