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Reading Turgenev

William Trevor

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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.

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Publisher
Viking
Year
2004
ISBN-13
9780141929804
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Loveless marriage and escape into imaginationForbidden love and secret relationshipsIsolation and psychological retreat

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