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This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.
Acquisto del libro
Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- Jigsaw
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Sybille Bedford
- Editore
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0907871798
- ISBN13
- 9780907871798
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Classici, Francia, Germania, XX Secolo, Europa Meridionale, Italia, Inghilterra, Gioventù, Infanzia, Romanzi autobiografici
- Titolo originale
- Jigsaw
- Valutazione
- 4,35 su 5
- Descrizione
- This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures. Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.