9780349017525 - Breakfast with the Nikolides: A Virago Modern Classic de Godden, Rumer (17 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: New. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMASBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . .

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMASBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . . Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMASBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . . Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMASBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . . Rumer Godden's coming-of-age story set in post-colonial East Bengal is a vivid and haunting classic. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - INTRODUCED BY ROSIE THOMAS Breakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood . . . For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and in their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . . 'She has distilled in simple, luminous prose the experiences of expatriate India, of childhood and its innocence' Lucy Hughes-Hallet'A heart-wrenchingly truthful evocation of the transition from child to adult, combined with Godden's pitch-perfect descriptions' Guardian'A genius for storytelling' Evening Standard.

Paperback. Condición: New. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROSIE THOMASBy the author of Black Narcissus and The River'One of our best and most captivating novelists' Philip Hensher'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' Evening StandardBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal and observing her neighbours, the Nikolides. While her parents paper over the cracks in the family home - and their veneer of respectability - the Nikolides offer a glimpse of glamour and sophistication. Then a tragic crisis plunges Emily into a world of adult deceit, and reveals that nothing in the community is quite as it seems . . .