Author

Publication

2008 - Scribner, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

73,250 words, Guess

Page Count

293 pages

Identifiers

and 11 more
  • ISBN-139781439142363
  • ISBN-10143914236X
  • LibraryThing6196485
  • Goodreads6049174', '6054353
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009277718
  • ISBN-10143914236
  • ISBN-13143914236
  • OCLC Control Number275358930
  • Better World Books9781439142363
  • Better World Books9781439143193
  • Open LibraryOL23106632M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6057.R316 C56 2008b
  • LCCPR6057.R316
and 3 more
  • LCCPR6057.R316C56 2008b
  • LCCPR6057.R316 C66 2008
  • LCCPR6057.R316 C56 2008

Description

In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival both banal and heroic and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.

Description

A powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present. A woman, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • The clothes on their backsScribner2008

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