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    Sarah Perry
    Enlightenment

    2024 | Nakladatelství Folio, spol.s r.o.

    A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends'Extraordinary' OBSERVER'A genre-bending novel of ideas' TELEGRAPH'A book with cosmic reach' FINANCIAL TIMES'Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN'Sarah Perry just gets better and better' INDEPENDENTThomas and Gr…ace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of love.Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century female astronomer Maria Veduva, said to haunt a nearby manor. Inspired by Maria, and the dawning realisation James may not reciprocate his feelings, Thomas finds solace studying the night skies. Could astronomy offer as much wonder as divine or earthly love?Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former who represents a different, wilder kind of life. They are drawn passionately together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.In time, the mysteries of Aldleigh are revealed, bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love, of the nature of the world, and the sheer miracle of being alive. A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends'Extraordinary' OBSERVER'A genre-bending novel of ideas' TELEGRAPH'A book with cosmic… reach' FINANCIAL TIMES'Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN'Sarah Perry just gets better and better' INDEPENDENTThomas and Grace are fellow worshippers at the Baptist chapel in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of love.Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century female astronomer Maria Veduva, said to haunt a nearby manor. Inspired by Maria, and the dawning realisation James may not reciprocate his feelings, Thomas finds solace studying the night skies. Could astronomy offer as much wonder as divine or earthly love?Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former who represents a different, wilder kind of life. They are drawn passionately together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.In time, the mysteries of Aldleigh are revealed, bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love, of the nature of the world, and the sheer miracle of being alive.

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    O knize

    Stav:
    Nová
    Vazba: Brožovaná
    Počet stran: 381
    Jazyk:  anglicky
    ISBN10: 1787335003
    ISBN: 9781787335004
    Vydání: First published
    Vydáno v: London
    Vystaveno: 19. 8. 2025 0:36
    Číslo položky: 1350375

    O autorovi

    Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perry

    Sarah Perryová se narodila roku 1979 v Essexu. Vystudovala angličtinu na Anglia Ruskin University, magisterský titul získala v oboru tvůrčího psaní a Ph.D. v oboru kreativního psaní na Royal Holloway, University of London. Její první dílo After Me Comes the Flood bylo vydáno roku 2014. Téhož roku úspěšný román získal ocenění East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, byl uveřejně v seznamu 2014 Guardian First Book Award a byl nominován na 2014 Folio Prize. V lednu až únoru 2016 autorka působila v rámci UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence v Praze.

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