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Still Life

De : Sarah Winman
Lu par : Sarah Winman
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD

‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton

‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie

’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily Mirror

From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.

1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening.

Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever.

Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.

‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ Sara Cox, BBC Two’s Between the Covers

‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties

‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail

‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday Times

Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021

 20e siècle Art Europe Fiction Fiction biographique Fiction historique Italie
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‘The sheer joy in Sarah Winman’s storytelling is completely infectious. I’ve loved spending time with this unforgettable cast of characters in extraordinary times and places’ Graham Norton
‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life … The novel has verve, charm and tremendous heart’ Sunday Times
‘Exquisite … There are not enough superlatives to contain the magnitude and beauty of this novel’ Sunday Independent
‘Sentence after sentence, character by character, Still Life becomes poetry’ New York Times Book Review
‘A tonic for wanderlust and a cure for loneliness. It’s that rare, affectionate novel that makes one feel grateful to have been carried along’ The Washington Post
‘Teeming with unforgettable characters and oozing atmosphere, it’s a joyous, summery ode to love, art and poetry’ Hephzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday
‘Rich, deeply moving and filled with hope. Sarah Winman is one of the greatest storytellers of our time’ Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
‘A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits … [A] hopeful, happy, intensely humane novel’ Daily Mirror
‘Readers will want to prolong the pleasure of Sarah Winman’s beautiful novel Still Life for as long as possible’ Donal Ryan, author of From a Low and Quiet Sea
'Embodies the full generosity of the human spirit’ Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
‘Gorgeous … luscious and clever’ The Times
‘In Still Life, [Winman] emerges now as the great narrator of hope’ Helen Cullen, Irish Times
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Everything about this book was delightful. From the very beginning I could imagine the scenery as described by the author . I could imagine those streets of London post war and those wonderful wonderful parts of Florence. All the characters jumped off the pages. At first I didn’t like the narration but I got used to her voice and the characters as she would have imagined them as she the author wrote them. A divine read

Made me laugh, made me cry

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The vividness, wonderment & beauty of the places, people, and parrot, past and recent brought excitement and delight

Florence

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The author has a way of getting the reader to love her characters so much that the end of her books come with an inevitable sadness as one realizes how much they will miss the characters.
The description of the environment, the moments, the emotions, are so elegant and deep at the same time; it makes the reader feel as if present. Loved this book very much.

Beautiful language, heartwarming story

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Sarah Winman has created a gallery of portraits: people, places, emotions, events, all painted with a palette of the richest descriptions and brush strokes worthy of the greatest masters (and mistresses) of the renaissance. unforgettable and wonderful. thank you. mille grazie

exquisite

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Such a wonderful story with wonderful characters and insights, exquisite prose and erudition. A book to read and listen to many times for sure.

Unforgettable

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