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Search - Novemila giorni e una sola notte (Letters from Skye) (Italian Edition)

Novemila giorni e una sola notte - Letters from Skye - Italian Edition
Author: Jessica Brockmole, Irene Annoni (Translator)

Margaret non sa perché Elspeth, sua madre, si sia sempre rifiutata di rispondere a qualsiasi domanda sul suo passato, limitandosi a mormorare: «Il primo volume della mia vita è esaurito», mentre gli occhi le si velavano di malinconia. — Eppure adesso quel passato ha preso la forma di una lettera ingiallita, l’unica... more » che Elspeth ha lasciato alla figlia prima di andarsene da casa, così, improvvisamente, senza neppure una parola d’addio. Una lettera che è l’appassionata dichiarazione d’amore di uno studente americano, David, a una donna di nome Sue. Una lettera che diventa, per Margaret, una sfida e una speranza: attraverso di essa, riuscirà infine a svelare i segreti della vita di sua madre e a ritrovarla?

Come fili invisibili, tirati dalla mano del tempo, le parole di David conducono Margaret sulla selvaggia isola di Skye, nell’umile casa di una giovane poetessa che, venticinque anni prima, aveva deciso di rispondere alla lettera di un ammiratore, dando inizio a una corrispondenza tanto fitta quanto sorprendente. La portano a scoprire una donna ostinata, che ha sempre nutrito la fiamma della sua passione, che non ha mai permesso all’odio di spegnerla. La guidano verso un uomo orgoglioso, che ha sempre seguito la voce del suo cuore, che non si è mai piegato al destino. Le fanno scoprire un amore unico, profondo come l’oceano che divideva Elspeth e David, devastante come la tragedia che incombeva su di loro, eterno come i novemila giorni che sarebbero passati prima del loro incontro…

A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.

March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence—sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets—their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he’ll survive.

June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn’t understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth’s house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth’s whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago.

Italian edition

ISBN-13: 9788842923329
ISBN-10: 884292332X
Publication Date: 9/19/2013
Pages: 338
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Publisher: Nord
Book Type: Hardcover
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