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Miranda Richmond Mouillot

    Tento autor zkoumá složité vztahy mezi domovem a identitou, zakořeněný v krajině Apalačského pohoří. Jeho dílo se vyznačuje hlubokým zájmem o institucionální kritiku a snahou o autenticitu. Prostřednictvím studií historie a literatury si vypěstoval jedinečný styl, který proniká do lidské zkušenosti. Autorova dlouhodobá angažovanost v zahraničí formuje jeho pohled na svět a odráží se v jeho vyprávění.

    A Fifty-year Silence
    • A Fifty-year Silence

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      After surviving World War II by escaping the Nazi occupation, Miranda Richmond Mouillot’s grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the south of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. The two never saw or spoke to each other again. This is the deeply involving account of Miranda’s journey to find out what happened. To discover the roots of this embittered and entrenched silence, Miranda abandons her plans for the future and moves to the old stone house, now a crumbling ruin, where she immerses herself in letters and archival materials, slowly teasing stories out of her reticent, and declining, grandparents. Along the way she finds herself learning how not only to survive, but to thrive—making a home in the village and falling in love. With warmth, humor, and rich, evocative detail, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking, uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations.

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