The Summer Guest
A Novel of Chekhov
During the long, hot summer of 1888, an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and a young doctor, Zinaida Lintvaryova. Struggling with her health, Zinaida has retreated to her family’s quiet country estate, but this secluded existence is transformed when the Chekhov family arrives to spend the summer there. What begins as a journal Zinaida keeps simply to pass the time becomes an intimate story of her relationship with the middle Chekhov son, Anton Pavlovich, in the early days of his literary career.More than a century later, the discovery of Zinaida’s diary represents Katya Kendall’s last chance to save her publishing house…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-242338-2
- EAN: 9780062423382
- Produktnummer: 20593713
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Gattung: Novel
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.7 cm x D3.0 cm 297 g
- Gewicht: 297
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ALISON ANDERSON, a native Californian, works as a literary translator in the Swiss Alps. Her many translations include the Europa edition of Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Ingrid Betancourt’s memoir, and the work of JMG De Clezio. She has also written two previous novels and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship, as well as fellowships at the prestigious MacDowell Colony and the Hawthornden Retreat for Writers.www.alison-anderson.com
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