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Melmoth
A Novel
Taschenbuch von Sarah Perry
Sprache: Englisch

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"Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” —Washington Post

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.

It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.

But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .

"Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” —Washington Post

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.

It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.

But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . . .

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780062856425
ISBN-10: 0062856421
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Perry, Sarah
Hersteller: HarperCollins US
Custom House
Maße: 208 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Perry
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 127230709
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780062856425
ISBN-10: 0062856421
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Perry, Sarah
Hersteller: HarperCollins US
Custom House
Maße: 208 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Perry
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 127230709
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