Kate Mosse
The City of Tears

2022 |

A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers.May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, an…d the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history . . . A breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers.May 1572: for ten violent… years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history . . .

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O knize

Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	560
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	150980689X
ISBN:	9781509806898
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	10. 4. 2025 0:13
Číslo položky:	1205542

O autorovi

Kate Mosse

Kate se narodila 20. října 1961 v severní Anglii. Po studiu na Oxfordu strávila 7 let ve vydavatelství. V roce 1996 vydala svůj první román Eskimo Kissing o mladé adoptované ženě, která pátrá po své minulosti. V letech 1998-2001 byla výkonnou ředitelkou festivalového divadla Chicester. Roku 2005 dosáhla mezinárodního úspěchu s knihou Labyrint, která byla přeložena do více než 37 jazyků. Kate Mosse je spoluzakladatelkou a čestnou ředitelkou Orange Prize, ceny pro autorky kvalitních románů. Za svůj přínos umělecké tvorbě byla jmenována Evropskou ženou úspěchu. Autorka je vdaná, s manželem a dětmi žije střídavě v Sussexu v Anglii a ve francouzském Carcassonne.

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