Speak Now - Hardcover

Jones, Kaylie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 188845153X ISBN 13: 9781888451535

Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S., 2003

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Book by Jones Kaylie

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"Kaylie Jones, one of America's finest young novelists, has written a tale that exhibits all her considerable strengths -- a dark and powerful story, a compelling hero, and language clear and deep as a New England pond. "Speak Now" is a rich and splendid book." -- Roger Rosenblatt

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Clara Sverdlow has been stalked by Niko Kamenski, her high-school lover, for almost twenty years. A recently sober alcoholic in her mid-thirties, she has found happiness in a tenuous new marriage to Mark. Yet the past lurks over them like a great shadow, always encroaching on their happiness.
Clara Sverdlow's father, Viktor, was a Russian political prisoner in Auschwitz. He was involved in the camp underground, "organizing" much-needed goods to help the prisoners. But he also worked on the train ramps and helped to guide thousands of innocent victims to the gas chambers. The guilt and horror Viktor still carries with him are part of his daughter Clara's natural composition, something she doesn't understand and yet accepts as one would a congenital illness. It shapes her every action, and is at the root of her every phobia. Mark has his own demons - a brother dead from a drug overdose, and connections to his hometown heavies - from which he can't seem to break free.
Yet together they have found a fragile grace. With a miracle baby, they are trying to forget the past and learn to live normally in the world. But Clara's stalker Niko Kamenski secretly insinuates himself upon their lives, with disastrous consequences. Clara and Mark's only hope is to address the past, and confront the present situation before it's too late.

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• Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 188845153X
• ISBN 13: 9781888451535
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250