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Ellis Avery

    Ellis Avery è un'autrice pluripremiata il cui lavoro approfondisce temi intricati di identità e storia. La sua prosa, ispirata sia dalla fantasy classica che da luminari letterari moderni, è caratterizzata da una lussureggiante specificità e da un acuto intuito. Avery esplora le intersezioni tra teatro, antropologia e religione, portando una prospettiva interdisciplinare unica nelle sue narrazioni. Il suo approccio letterario, spesso radicato in una ricerca meticolosa e nella riflessione personale, svela profonde esperienze umane con sensibilità e arte.

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    Die Tage des Rauchs
    The Teahouse Fire
    The Last Nude
    • The Last Nude

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the World Wars.Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished—and coveted—works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide.Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, The Last Nude is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret, and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.

      The Last Nude
    • The Teahouse Fire

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      “Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.

      The Teahouse Fire
    • Die Tage des Rauchs

      11.–21. September 2001

      Das, was es nicht ist, ist das Besondere an diesem Buch: Es ist keine große Reportage, keine detaillierte Analyse, keine politische Denkschrift und kein berichthaftes Tagebuch. Ellis Avery hat einfach nur ein beinahe zartes Zeugnis für das hinterlassen, was bei historischen Ereignissen schnell unsichtbar wird: die Gefühle der Menschen. Wie die ganze Stadt erlebte sie einen Schrecken, mit dem fernab von den Kriegsschauplätzen dieser Welt nie gerechnet wird. Auf das normale Leben senkten sich mit einem Schlag Tod, Bedrohung und Unsicherheit herab, gefolgt von dem Gefühl, irgendetwas tun zu müssen, um sich zu schützen, zu retten, weitere Gewalt zu verhindern und zurückzufinden in eine Normalität. Ellis Avery hat mit ihrem Text einen Weg gefunden, die Empfindungen dieser Septembertage scheinbar ganz privat und mit sanfter sprachlicher Knappheit einzufangen. Und gerade in ihrer nuancierten Zurückgenommenheit stellen ihre Skizzen aus der angegriffenen Stadt ein besonders eindrückliches, sehr reales und doch auch sinnbildhaftes Stück Erinnerung dar.

      Die Tage des Rauchs
    • Paryż, rok 1927. Trwają szalone lata przed kryzysem - bankierzy ubierają swoje kochanki u Coco Chanel, a artyści spotykają się w awangardowej księgarni Shakespeare and Company. Pewnego czerwcowego dnia młoda Amerykanka Rafaela Fano wsiada do automobilu pięknej nieznajomej, którą okazuje się słynna malarka epoki art dco, Tamara Łempicka. Ponieważ dziewczyna rozpaczliwie potrzebuje pieniędzy, zgadza się pozować dla tej polskiej artystki o mrocznej przeszłości, wywłaszczonej arystokratki, która przyjechała do Paryża z Sankt Petersburga. Zostają kochankami, a uroda dziewczyny inspiruje Łempicką, która tworzy swoje najznakomitsze i najsłynniejsze dzieła.

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