Verlag: Talonbooks, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889225206 ISBN 13: 9780889225206
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. 1. In 1914, Simon Dulac enrolls in a Canadian contingent of military police, a perfect cover for his real ambition-to comb the battlefields of Europe unhindered in his search for the legendary Templar treasure said to have been buried in Flanders in 1307. An inveterate and uncannily lucky gambler, Dulac encounters Nell, who has come to the trenches to practice suturing wounds, forbidden to nurses in her native England.So skilled is Nell at her craft that she knits together torn and broken flesh with elaborate and beautiful embroidery, creating a rebus code which both reveals and conceals the most intricate secrets of her charges.Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell pursue their desires and risk everything in the greatest game of all.Masterful, transgressive and erudite, Desjardinss second novel constructs a narrative tapestry woven of the most elusive threads of meaning and signification.
Verlag: Talonbooks, Vancouver, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889225206 ISBN 13: 9780889225206
Anbieter: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Kanada
Erstausgabe
Trade Paperback Original. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First English Lang. Ed., First Printing. Soft creases to cover, and slight moisture waviness to first leaf. A novel, translated from the original French by Fred A. Reed and David Homel. 157 pages.