Nina George: The Book of Dreams, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Book of Dreams
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- Verlag:
- Random House Publishing Group, 08/2020
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525572541
- Artikelnummer:
- 9901375
- Umfang:
- 416 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 299 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke:
- 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.8.2020
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Warm, wise, and magical--the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death
Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place.
After the accident, Sam--a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction--waits by his father's bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight--for hope, for patience, for life--they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side.
A revelatory, urgently human story that examines what we consider serious and painful alongside light and whimsy, THE BOOK OF DREAMS is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.
Biografie
Nina George, am 30. August 1973 geboren, lebt in Hamburg, glaubt an Universumsbestellungen, Liebe auf den dritten Blick, die Ehe und die Macht erstklassiger italienischer Küche. Unter ihrem Pseudonym Anne West sind Sachbücher rund um Liebe, Lust und Partnerschaft erschienen. Seit 1993 ist sie als Journalistin tätig - zunächst für Penthouse , dann für das Hamburger Abendblatt . Heute schreibt sie freiberuflich als Kolumnistin u.a. für Cosmopolitan , TV Movie und MISS-Die Junge Wienerin .