Smoke Portrait by James MacManus
Smoke Portrait by James MacManus
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Author(s): James MacManus
Pub: Alma Books
Pack Qty: 0 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781846881732
Subjects: Fiction, Historical, Literary, Coming of Age, Family Life, Siblings, Friendship
196mm x 133mm x 31mm
Publication: 27 August 2013Pages: 310
Told partially in correspondence, thisliterary novel is atragictale of love, loss, and the lies we choose to believe
Glen has left England to live with her aunt, who runs a tea plantation in Ceylon and fills her days with good works, among them the task of writing letters to a Belgian prisoner. But the letters go astray, and are received instead by Marten, eager to discover the wide world outside his small village, and desperately missing his older brother Krelis, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Marten decides to reply to Glen in the guise of the grown-up prisoner she is expecting to hear from, and as their correspondence evolves, they both assume identities that, while false in many respects, remain true to their own selves in other ways. Gradually they come to depend on each other, and their pen friendship proves to be crucial when events in their real lives take on a darker, more threatening significance in the shadow of the impending world war.
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