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A carregar... City of Crows (2017)por Chris Womersley
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. More from this author, please. ( ) City of Crows is a wildly atmospheric novel of 17th century France. After the plague kills most of her family, Charlotte Picot makes her way to Paris in search of her kidnapped son, becoming what seems to be a witch along the way - or is she? Like a love child of Les Miserables and Brotherhood of the Wolf, City of Crows is a great read. Pretty grim reading in places. This book is beautifully written, which is no surprise because Womersley has wondrously clear prose and a deft sense of word choice. He also often gives me that slight, dizzying blur between what is real and what might be real and what might be magical, which is intriguing. This book is close to five stars for me, only falling short because it is such a relentlessly dismal story, very dark, in which I couldn't find any redemption for anyone (unlike for example Womersley's previous post-WWI novel Bereft). Although set in Paris, the story appeared to be deliberately evoking so much of the misery, filth, cruelty and superstitions of medieval times, that the action could have taken place in any miserable benighted town in Europe. At a different time in my own story/life, I might like this book better, but I was left feeling rather depressed and hopeless. City of Crows by Chris Womersley is historical fiction (my favourite genre) and contains some of my favourite tropes in a novel: witchcraft and the plague. Set in late 1600s France, City of Crows is essentially a story of survival. Charlotte, recently widowed and trying to save her son from the plague and Monsieur Adam du Coeuret, a prisoner assigned to the galleys for his crimes are both seeking freedom from their harsh lives. I'm not sure whether I should have picked this up straight after reading Ken Follett's A Column of Fire, as it could have dampened my enjoyment of Womersley's tale somewhat. Follett is an historical fiction writing wizard and in the shadow of that great tome, City of Crows failed to reach the heights I was hoping for. A satisfactory and entertaining story, the City of Crows of the title is Paris and I absolutely love the cover art, don't you? Knowing the characters are based on real people and historical facts certainly added to my enjoyment and appreciation of the research involved. In a different world, I would have liked to have stayed with Charlotte and followed her journey through life for the next 50 years - without the involvement of Adam. This is my first novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley, and reading it has made me determined to seek out his award-winning novel Bereft in the future. * Copy courtesy of Pan Macmillan Australia * sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A woman's heart contains all things. Her heart is tender and loving, but it has other elements. It contains fire and intrigue and mighty storms. Shipwreck and all that has ever happened in the world. Murder, if need be...1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child Nicolas from an outbreak of plague, Charlotte Picot flees her tiny village in the French countryside. But when Nicolas is abducted by a troop of slavers, Charlotte resorts to witchcraft and summons assistance in the shape of a malevolent man. She and her companion travel to Paris where they become further entwined in the underground of sorcerers and poisoners - and where each is forced to reassess their ideas of good and evil. Before Charlotte is finished she will wander hell's halls, trade with a witch and accept a demon's fealty. Meanwhile, a notorious criminal is unexpectedly released from the prison galleys where he has served a brutal sentence for sacrilege... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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