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The Cloud Sketcher

A Novel

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London
Kiadó: HarperCollinsPublishers
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 504 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 18 cm x 11 cm
ISBN: 0-00-712832-0
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'No one who opens The CloudSketcher will find it easy to stop reading before the last vertiginous page' Chicago Tribüné Police stand ready to make an arrest as the Ile de Francé liner docks at New York Harbour in 1929. The passengers assume that it is notorious bootlegger Paul Mantilini who is to be taken away. But Mantilini walks down the gangplank a free man and instead it is Esko Vaananen the police arrest - a celebrated architect, and by all accounts a shy and mild-mannered young man. Born a peasant in rural Finland at the turn of the century, Esko, the son of an outcast Bolshevik, dreamed of skyscrapers and of a beautiful and tragic Russian aristocrat named Katerina. His entire life has been spent pursuing and protecting these twin passions, no matter how great the cost. It is a journey that has led him into the battlefields of the Bolshevik revolution and the jazz-age nightclubs of New York City, and finally, to strike a Faustian bargain with a ruthless gangster - all in... Tovább

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'No one who opens The CloudSketcher will find it easy to stop reading before the last vertiginous page' Chicago Tribüné Police stand ready to make an arrest as the Ile de Francé liner docks at New York Harbour in 1929. The passengers assume that it is notorious bootlegger Paul Mantilini who is to be taken away. But Mantilini walks down the gangplank a free man and instead it is Esko Vaananen the police arrest - a celebrated architect, and by all accounts a shy and mild-mannered young man. Born a peasant in rural Finland at the turn of the century, Esko, the son of an outcast Bolshevik, dreamed of skyscrapers and of a beautiful and tragic Russian aristocrat named Katerina. His entire life has been spent pursuing and protecting these twin passions, no matter how great the cost. It is a journey that has led him into the battlefields of the Bolshevik revolution and the jazz-age nightclubs of New York City, and finally, to strike a Faustian bargain with a ruthless gangster - all in pursuit of artistic perfection and impofsible, unattainable love. And now he stands accused of murder... 'Breathtaking ... a passionate book that threads architecture, war and history through the story of two lovers' USA Today Vissza

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