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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Lots of the other books I have read recently are about memory; this is about not remembering, because the memories are of not having known. It is a cruel book about an unkind story that happens to a far-from sympathetic narrator, that I read at a most unhappy time in my own life, and yet it held me in a power that compelled me to finish it. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St Germain, a distinguished novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman's hands folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for a compelling story of desire and jealousy in Brina Svit's explosive new novel, Con Brio. The respected author's comfortable life vanishes the instant he admires this strange woman's hands; the discipline of forty productive years dissolves. On an impulse he proposes to her. She answers without hesitation: yes, she will marry him, but on her terms. She will live with him, but they are to remain strangers. Soon Kati has driven Tibor's housekeeper, secretary and even his cat from his home. And as she continues to hold Tibor at arms' length, he goes from being a cool observer of the chaos she creates, to a man driven wild by passion and jealousy. With a brutality offset only by the elegance and subtlety of Svit's writing. Con Brio - like Death in Venice before it - dramatises the ruinous consequences of sexual obsession. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8435Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Slovene Slovene fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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