Reading Turgenev
In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. My House in Umbria tells of Emily Delahunty, a writer of romantic novels, who helps the survivors of a bomb attack on a train to convalesce, inventing colourful pasts for her patients. Two novels, two women who retreat further into the realm of the imagination until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. Reading Turgenev was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
- Publisher
- Viking
- ISBN-13
- 9780141929804
- Genre
- Topics
- Loveless marriage and escape into imaginationForbidden love and secret relationshipsIsolation and psychological retreat
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1991)
Other awarded books from William Trevor
- Love and Summer (2009)0 wins · 6 score
- Death in Summer (1999)0 wins · 4 score
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- Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (2015)0 wins · 4 score
- The Children of Dynmouth (1976)0 wins · 4 score
- The Story of Lucy Gault (2011)0 wins · 4 score
- William Trevor: The Collected Stories (2009)0 wins · 4 score
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