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Distant Music

Distant Music

by Lee Langley (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.47
Synopsis

A richly imaginative novel of love, loss, time and the rise and fall of a great maritime empire, that sends two thwarted lovers spiralling through the chaos of history. The story begins in 1429 on Madeira, when a peasant girl meets a boy- a Jewish outsider- from a Portuguese sailing ship. Esperanca and Emmanuel know they must part when the ship sails. From that first meeting and parting, others follow...Emmanuel is in turn sailor, mapmaker, bookseller, jazz musician; Esperanca an illiterate peasant, a rich girl in Faro and a clever, bookish recluse who confronts a murderer in nineteenth-century Lisbon. In twentieth-century London, Esperanca is faced with a double incarnation, one of the true Emmanuel and the other a shadow. Over the centuries the couple face peril and tenderness. Each life is short. What survives is love.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 009943346X
ISBN 13: 9780099433460
Book Overview: An intriguing love story, strong in narrative and rich in imagination, which re-creates the same heroine through the ages, and weaves stories round her love for a clever and sympathetic man, who through the centuries represents the powerful attractions of the Jewish tradition.

Media Reviews
A rich, evocative novel...Haunting and magical * Daily Mail *
Lee Langley has a marvellous ability to evoke places...With originality and elegance she carried me enthralled into disparate, related and brilliantly illuminated worlds. Distant Music is a little masterpiece * Sunday Telegraph *
One can almost feel the scent of orange blossom, the brilliance of the sun reflected on the sea, the ripe grape on the vine, the intoxicating atmosphere of romance and passion * Independent *
Thoughtful and inventive...Elegantly written and quietly affecting * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Lee Langley is the author of nine highly praised novels including Changes of Address (shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize) and Persistent Rumours (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' prize). Her most recent book was A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire, a volume of short stories, poetry and journalism. Her adaptation 'The Tenth Man', based on a Graham Greene story, was made into an award-winning movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.