Strange heart beating / Eli Goldstone.
By: Goldstone, Eli [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Granta, 2017Description: 194 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1783783494; 9781783783496.Subject(s): Wives -- Death -- Fiction | Grief -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | London (England) -- Fiction | Latvia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction.DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: "Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together."--Publisher's web site.
| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Fiction | Stratford Fiction | Fiction | GOL (Browse shelf) | Available | A00797333 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. With a name like that, with a bizarre family history like hers, it isn't really surprising. Seb has a grip on her story and its aesthetics; he knows how it should go. Except that he doesn't. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from a man whom Leda has never mentioned. It is a loose detail in the thread of his narrative that, when pulled, unravels the whole story of his marriage. Who is this stranger who knew her so well? Why did she flee her home village in Latvia? What happened to her as a young woman in London? Who, Seb wonders, was his wife? Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Latvia to find her. He is met, instead, with the living ghosts of her past, all of whom knew a fragment of Leda - but none of whom are willing to share their secrets with him.
"Seb's beautiful, beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan. Sorting through her belongings after her death, he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf, a man whom Leda had never mentioned. Floundering professionally and sunk by grief, he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together. But with each new person that he turns to for answers, Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda, her past and their life together."--Publisher's web site.
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