The Madonna Of The Moon

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$27.30
SKU:
9780307594129
Autor:
Bauerdick, Rolf
Editorial:
Vintage

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Titulo: The Madonna Of The Moon

Autor: Bauerdick, Rolf

Editorial: Vintage

Lenguaje: Inglés Internacional

ISBN13: 9780307594129

Reseña: An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant deeply enchanting debut novel--both whimsical and suspenseful--winner of the European Book Prize and translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. November 1957: As Communism spreads across Eastern Europe strange events are beginning to upend daily life in Baia Luna a tiny village nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. As the Soviets race to reach the moon and Sputnik soars overhead fifteen-year-old Pavel Botev attends the small village school with the other children. Their sole teacher the mysterious and once beautiful Angela Barbulescu was sent by the Ministry of Education and while it is suspected that she has lived a highly cultured life much of her past remains hidden. But one day after asking Pavel to help hang a photo of the new party secretary she whispers a startling directive in his ear: Send this man straight to hell! Exterminate him! By the next morning she has disappeared. With little more to go on than the gossip and rumors swirling through his grandfather Iljas tavern Pavel finds curiosity overcoming his fear when suddenly the villages sacred Madonna statue is stolen and the priest Johannes Baptiste is found brutally murdered in the rectory. Aided by the Gypsy girl Buba and her eccentric uncle Dimitru Gabor Pavels search for answers leads him far from the innocent concerns of childhood and into the frontiers of a new world changing his life forever.

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