Ergebnis für "Chimera" in Historische Romane

Premio Strega 1990. Premio fondazione il campiello 2015. Nel 1610 Zardino è un piccolo borgo immerso tra le nebbie e le risaie a sud del Monte Rosa. Un villaggio come tanti, sembra, ma che in realtà racchiude una storia incredibile. Quella di una donna, Antonia, una trovatella cresciuta nella Pia Casa di Novara, scelta da due contadini e portata in paese, dove cerca di vivere nella fede e con semplicità, come le hanno insegnato le monache. Ma la ragazza è strana, dice la gente.

The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part English, an explorer of the past who is haunted by his own past when he parachuted into wartime Italy as an SOE agent.  

Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and the rise of the Third Reich, powerful and dangerous interests compete for possession of The Reaper, a painting by Spanish artist Joan Miro. The painting disappears in 1937 at the end of the Paris Exposition, leaving the art world and law enforcement authorities to speculate about the unsolved mystery. Seventy-five years later, Magnolia Kanaranzi, estranged mother of struggling artist Hamilton Blethen, learns of the vanished painting and contrives a scheme to atone for casting him aside as a toddler.

“A stand-alone heavy hitter that’s more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig’s upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson’s The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch’s pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but...