Enchantments

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ‘The Binding Chair’, ‘Exposure’, ‘A Thousand Orange Trees’ and ‘Envy’, as well as two volumes of memoirs, ‘The Kiss’ and ‘Seeking Rapture’, all available from Fourth Estate. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children. Zusammenfassung From the author of The Kiss, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar.

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'A sumptuous, atmospheric account of the last days of the Romanovs from the perspective of Rasputin's daughter, Enchantments animates a kaleidoscopic breadth of historical detail with the sensuous, transporting prose that is Kathryn Harrison's trademark.' Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit From the Goon Squad
'Ask yourself who, in all the world, would be the best novelist to imagine being Rasputin's daughter. Kathryn Harrison makes the answer obvious. Her Enchantments is a stupendous work of historical imagination.' Peter Carey
'A marvelous writer, one of the best at work today. She is unflinching, however difficult her material... Few authors of serious literary fiction are so daring' Daily Telegraph
'Kathryn Harrison has written some of the most daringly, darkly uncompromising books I've read' Julie Myerson
'Splendid and surprising ... Kathryn Harrison has given us something enduring' New York Times
'Marvellously evocative ... The stories that Masha spins out for the bed-bound tsarevich flow out effortlessly in her plain, clear voice, making many of them indeed enchanting' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Harrison, Harrison Kathryn
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.08.2012
• EAN: 9780007476473
• ISBN: 978-0-00-747647-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Dystopian, Modern & contemporary fiction, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Inter-war period c 1919 to c 1939, Love Story; Historical; Tsars; Romanovs; Russia; Rasputin