Elizabeth Gilbert: The Signature of All Things
The Signature of All Things
Buch
- Bloomsbury UK, 07/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781408850046
- Bestellnummer: 3147738
- Umfang: 584 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2014
- Gewicht: 316 g
- Maße: 177 x 113 mm
- Stärke: 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.7.2014
- Serie: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. This glorious, sweeping historical novel can be compared with Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, with more than a touch of George Eliot. Eat, Pray, Love has sold over ten million copies around the world.Klappentext
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From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right. But as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction - into the realm of the spiritual, the divine and the magical.
The Signature of All Things soars across the globe of the nineteenth century, from London and Peru, to Philadelphia, Tahiti and beyond. Peopled with extraordinary characters along the way, most of all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker.