Author : Catherine Colomb
Publisher : Swiss List
ISBN 13 : 9780857423726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (237 download)
Book Synopsis The Spirits of the Earth by : Catherine Colomb
Download or read book The Spirits of the Earth written by Catherine Colomb and published by Swiss List. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel. The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.