Maile Chapman

Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2010.

In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. Is is the early twentieth century and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. The upper floors house foreign women of privilege, tended to by Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life, only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism.

On a late summer's day, a new patient arrives on Sunny's ward, a faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia's reserve, but soon Julia's tightly coiled anger places her at the centre of the ward's tangled life...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781407074177
• Artikelnr.: 39214769

Autorenporträt

Maile Chapman's stories have appeared in A Public Space, the Literary Review, The Mississippi Review, and Post Road. She earned her MFA from Syracuse University and is currently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.