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After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought
under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find
themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This
is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the
tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate
in the decades of violence and political confusion that follow. In
this extraordinary novel, Diane Meur calls upon an unusual
narrator: the ancestral house itself-the House of Shadows of the
title-which, from behind its unmoving facade, watches the comings
and goings of generations of inhabitants. The house is everywhere
in the story, hearing and observing everything; it encompasses all
the shadows of a past that it knows better than its occupants do.
But it envies the mobility of those who reside there, and though
the years pass, nothing changes for the house. Like the house, the
Zemka women-mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces-are condemned
to a certain immobility. At home, they wait for love, passion, and
stories of the calamitous events on the horizon. On the threshold
of the twentieth century, only one young woman manages to escape
from beneath the weight of her family's house and the historical
conflagrations to come.
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In Dreams (Hardcover)
Diane Meur; Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan; Illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee
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R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small,
Diane Meur has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this
small volume the author shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a
time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in
her own life. As she writes in the preface, "They are not my life,
they are not my writing, they are just the dreams I had,
remembered, and noted down: all of them, and every part of them,
without censure or omission." Some dreams are humorous: peeling a
scorpion like a shrimp and finding it isn't half bad; some are
poignant: a tiny doll-like baby encountered in a train; and, as in
many dreams, there is much anxiety: old boyfriends encountered
again; children in distress; unusual, threatening spaces and
people. Though dreamt by the author, Meur's dreams share a common
human intimacy - in them we recognize our own innermost thoughts,
concerns, desires, and fears. Accompanied by the otherworldly
illustrations of collage artist Sunandini Banerjee, Meur's dreams
come alive, inspiring our own reveries and becoming part of our
nocturnal imaginings.
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