ATS - Dunmore Helen - House of Orphans

19-01-2012, 18:44
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House of Orphans
Helen Dunmore

Penguin Books London 2007

stan dobry plus

str. 330

format 13 x 20 cm

waga 245 g

Książka w języku angielskim/The book is in English

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Slowly, Thomas falls in love with Eeva...but she has committed herself long ago to a boy from her childhood, Lauri, who is now caught up in Helsinki's turmoil of resistance to Russian rule. Set in dangerous, unfamiliar times which strangely echo our own, the story reveals how terrorism lies hidden within ordinary life, as rulers struggle to hold on to power. "House of Orphans" is a rich, brilliant story of love, history and change.

'We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure...' When they retired,

Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the

Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together

with their whippet Jim. On the Phyllis May, you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel, are swept down the

terrible Rhone, and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue. You meet the French nobody

meets - poets, captains, historians, drunks, bargees, men with guns, scholars, madmen - they all want to know the

people on the painted boat and their narrow dog. You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders,

the canals beneath Paris, the heavenly Yonne, the lost Burgundy Canal, the islands of the Saone, and the forbidden

ways to the Mediterranean. Aliens, dicks, trolls, vandals, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead all stand

between our three innocents and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne.