Elizabeth Kostova
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English
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A "novel that spans the past and the present--and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of--a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that...
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Language
English
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
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Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Español
Description
El psiquiatra Andrew Marlon se ha dedicado a su profesión y a su afición que es la pintura; tiene una vida solitaria, pero ordenada. Cuando el reconocido pintor Robert Oliver ataca a un lienzo en la Galeria Nacional de Arte y se convierte en su paciente, Marlow encuentra ese orden destruido. Desesperado por entender el secreto que atormenta al genio, se embarca en un viaje que lo lleva más cerca a las vidas de las mujeres de Oliver y a una tragedia...