Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old
Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an
ambitious – and wildly eccentric – plan to redesign the Holy City
by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little
witness', eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms and behind the
curtains of the dance-halls of the city's elite, watching everything
but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials,
exiled Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up
the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.
When Prue's father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to
take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of
the attraction that sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife
of a famous Jerusalem photographer. And, after Harrington learns that
Eleanora's husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British,
those sparks are fanned dangerously into a flame. Years later, in
1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her
young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals
unravels her world, and she must follow the threads that lead her back
to secrets long-ago buried in Jerusalem. The Photographer's Wife is a
powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between
husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex
period between the two world wars.
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ISBN
9781408840795
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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