Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city ... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. Simon Mawer puts... Celý popis
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Ancestry - Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (Mawer Simon)(Paperback / softback)
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Ancestry - Simon Mawer
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Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea ... Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, imagines a new life in the big city ... George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Food, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough.
Simon Mawer puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. There is birth and death
Simon Mawer puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. There is birth and death
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Rok vydání | 2023 |
Autor | Mawer Simon |
Počet stran | 415 |
Výrobce | Little, Brown and Company |
Vazba | brožovaná |
Jazyk | anglické |
Váha | 332 gramů |