Hello everyone,
I trust you enjoyed the sunny weekend and had a pleasant time with your loved ones?
Here are two books about people who were never granted this simple pleasure in life:
As the song says:
I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Booker prize
The story is set at the end of the Second World War and deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English patient, his Canadian nurse Hana, a Canadian-Italian thief named Caravaggio, and an Indian sapper in the British Army called Kip as they live out the end of World War II in an abandoned Italian villa.
Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, the English Patient, is anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
- The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton, winner of the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman
The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful thirty-year-old cousin, who has been living in Europe. As he grows closer to Ellen, his match with May no longer seems the ideal fate he had imagined.
I trust you enjoyed the sunny weekend and had a pleasant time with your loved ones?
Here are two books about people who were never granted this simple pleasure in life:
As the song says:
I'll be looking at the moon,
but I'll be seeing you.
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, winner of the Booker prize
The story is set at the end of the Second World War and deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English patient, his Canadian nurse Hana, a Canadian-Italian thief named Caravaggio, and an Indian sapper in the British Army called Kip as they live out the end of World War II in an abandoned Italian villa.
Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, the English Patient, is anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
- The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton, winner of the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman
The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful thirty-year-old cousin, who has been living in Europe. As he grows closer to Ellen, his match with May no longer seems the ideal fate he had imagined.
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