From the unusually talented Italian writer whose first work of short fiction, Girl in a Turban, won wide praise, a first novel that is quietly enchanting. In the same beautifully textured prose that characterized her previous book, Marta Morazzoni transports us to another time and place - northern France, long ago - and manages nevertheless to maintain a contemporary perspective on the events that take place there. Morazzoni interweaves two narratives. In the first, a queen calls upon three hundred of the kingdom's most ...
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From the unusually talented Italian writer whose first work of short fiction, Girl in a Turban, won wide praise, a first novel that is quietly enchanting. In the same beautifully textured prose that characterized her previous book, Marta Morazzoni transports us to another time and place - northern France, long ago - and manages nevertheless to maintain a contemporary perspective on the events that take place there. Morazzoni interweaves two narratives. In the first, a queen calls upon three hundred of the kingdom's most talented women to assemble at court. Their mission: to bring to life the queen's vision of what is to become the Bayeux tapestry - a grand and beautiful enterprise that will speak a universal language for all time. The second part of Morazzoni's story concerns John Ruskin, the great nineteenth-century English art critic, who, in his twilight years, arrives in the grimy city of Amiens to reflect upon his life, the city that surrounds him, and the famous cathedral that towers above and around it. In alternating narratives that capture various degrees of light and dark, the shades of dawn and dusk, and that depict moods ranging from elation to melancholy, Morazzoni paints a portrait of life in the nineteenth century and in the Middle Ages that is as haunting as it is unique. In her radiant vision of the fusion of the creative forces giving life to both the massive pillars of the cathedral and the slender threads of the tapestry, Morazzoni offers further proof of her delicate and evocative view of life and art - both long ago, and as we see it now.
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