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Zoli A Novel: novel
β Scribed by Colum McCann
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307493725
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCann's TransAtlantic.
A unique love story, a tale of loss, a parable of Europe, this haunting novel is an examination of intimacy and betrayal in a community rarely captured so vibrantly in contemporary literature.
Zoli Novotna, a young woman raised in the traveling Gypsy tradition, is a poet by accident as much as desire. As 1930s fascism spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. Sharpened by the world of books, which is often frowned upon in the Romani tradition, Zoli becomes the poster girl for a brave new world. As she shapes the ancient songs to her times, she finds her gift embraced by the Gypsy people and savored by a young English expatriate, Stephen Swann.
But Zoli soon finds that when she falls she cannot fall halfway--neither in love nor in politics. While Zoli's fame and poetic skills deepen, the ruling Communists...
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