Eden Burning

Zusatztext "Belva Plain doesn't know how not to write a best seller."— Newsday . "Immensely successful."— The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Belva Plain captured readers' hearts with her first novel, Evergreen , which Delacorte published more than 30 years ago. It topped the New York Times best-seller list for 41 weeks and aired as an NBC-TV miniseries. In total, more than 20 of her books have been New York Times best sellers. Before becoming a novelist,  Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines, but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she had always wanted to write. When she looked back and said she didn't have the time, she felt as though she had been making excuses. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." But, she reminded us, during the era that she was raising her family, women were supposed to concentrate only on their children. Today 30 million copies of her books are in print. A Barnard College graduate who majored in history,  Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist. Widowed for more than 25 years, Ms. Plain continued to reside in New Jersey, where she and her husband had raised their family and which was still home to her nearby children and grandchildren until her death in October 2010. Klappentext Teresa Francis could never go home again to the lush Caribbean island of her birth. Even at fifteen! as she fled to Paris to avoid scandal! Teresa knew that the island was her past! never to be spoken of again. Her future lay in New York! in a hasty marriage to a charming! wealthy man who would give her children yet never piece her wall of reserve. But the island was in the Francis blood. And nothing could keep Teresa's son from its shores! so mysterious! so seductive! its extravagant beauty veiling the darkness within. Here he would walk in his mother's steps! in a parallel life! so close to the secrets she buried years before. And here he would find his destiny in the passions of history! political upheaval! and forbidden love. . . . ONE   Teresa Francis, called Tee, was six years old when first she learned that St. Felice was not the world—and fifteen when she fled from it in fear and shame, for reasons that the most flamboyant imagination could not have foretold.   “The world is enormous, child,” Père said. “It’s a great ball spinning around the sun, and St. Felice is only a fleck of dust on the ball.”   Père was her grandfather and her friend, more so than ever in that winter of 1928 when her father, he who was Père’s son, had died. She understood Père’s sadness, feeling it as a graver pain than Mama’s was, in spite of the black dress and the tears.   “Look carefully, there—those two dark curves like clouds, you see? Those are St. Lucia’s peaks. That way, there’s St. Vincent. And Dominica, and Grenada—”   The child had a sudden image of these islands, drawn out of who knew what remembered words, an image of green turtles, mottled and domed, like turtles dozing by the little river where black women were even now beating clothes clean on the rocks.   “And down there’s Covetown, follow my finger—you can see the careenage, and I think I can just make out a liner coming into the roadstead.”   A liner. A great ship with smoke twirling from the funnels and a lovely name like Marina or Southern Star. When the ships came they brought good things: bisque dolls with real hair, Mama’s beautiful hats and her kid gloves (“Unbearable in this climate,” Mama said, “but a lady can’t go very far without them, can she?”), and the glittery things in the Da Cunha shop on Wharf Street, and Père’s books and Papa’s suits from England—only there would be no more of those; his suits had been given to the ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Belva Plain
• Verlag: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.09.1987
• EAN: 9780440121350
• ISBN: 978-0-440-12135-0
• Seiten: 480
• Abmessung: 106 mm x 175 mm x 32 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur