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The Daughters - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Lulu can't sing. Since the traumatic birth of her daughter, the
internationally renowned soprano hasn't dared utter a note. She's
afraid that her body is too fragile and that she may have lost her
talent to a long-dreaded curse afflicting all of the mothers in her
family. When Lulu was a child, her strong-willed grandmother Ada
filled her head with fables of the family's enchanted history in
the Polish countryside. A fantastical lore took hold-an incantatory
mix of young love, desperate hope, and one sinister bargain that
altered the family's history forever. Since that fateful pact, Ada
tells Lulu, each mother in their family has been given a daughter,
but each daughter has exacted an essential cost from her mother.
Ada was the first to recognize young Lulu's transcendent talent,
spotting it early on in their cramped Chicago apartment, then
watching her granddaughter ascend to dizzying heights in packed
international concert halls. But as the curse predicted, Lulu's
mother, a sultry and elusive jazz singer, disappeared into her
bitterness in the face of Lulu's superior talent-before
disappearing from her family's life altogether. Now, in the early
days of her own daughter's life, Lulu now finds herself weighing
her overwhelming love for her child against the burden of her
family's past. In incandescent prose, debut novelist Adrienne Celt
skillfully intertwines the sensuous but precise physicality of both
motherhood and music. She infuses The Daughters with the spirit of
the rusalka, a bewitching figure of Polish mythology that inspired
Dvorak's classic opera. The result is a tapestry of secrets,
affairs, and unimaginable sacrifices, revealing a family legacy
laced with brilliance, tragedy, and most mysterious and seductive
of all-the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the
one that came before.
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Imprint: |
Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2015 |
Authors: |
Adrienne Celt
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Dimensions: |
218 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Rough front
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63149-045-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-63149-045-1 |
Barcode: |
9781631490453 |
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