MY MOTHER'S LOVER
Language: English Publication details: Calcutta, India Seagull Books 2011/01/01Edition: 1Description: 127ISBN:- 9781906497965
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Ernakulam Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F URS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E185473 |
It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful and rich. In contrast he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. Buy the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in the country, but she is penniless. And, most important, no one knows of her live for him : it is a secret she took to her grave. Here begins Urs Widmer's Novel My mothers Lover.
Based on a real-life affair, My mother's Lover is the story of woman's lifelong and unspoken love for a man, recorded by her son who begins this novel on the day his mothers lover dies. Set against the back-drop of the Depression and the Second World War, it is a story of sacrifice and betrayal, passionate devotion and inevitable suffering. A unique kind of fairy tale
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