Name: Orphans of Empire
SKU: 52976354
Price: 23000.00 CLP
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Author: Grant Buday
ISBN: 9781927366899

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Libro Físico

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Grant Buday

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Tapa Blanda

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9781927366899

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Ficción histórica

Orphans of Empire

Grant Buday (Autor) · · Tapa Blanda

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Grant Buday infuses history with rare, evocative energy in this deftly crafted trio of narratives that spans half a century and converges in a hotel in historic New Brighton, BC.In Grant Budays new novel, three captivating stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a lifetime when he is sent to help establish a second Englandwhat is now British Columbia. In 1865 Frisadie, an eighteen-year-old Kanaka housemaid, who is more entrepreneur than ingénue, arrives in New Brighton from Hawaii. She convinces Maxie Michaud, to purchase the hotel with her, and it soon becomes the toast of the inlet. In 1883 Henry Fannin, a young, curious embalmer and magnetism devotee, having struck out in London and San Francisco, arrives in New Brighton and promptly falls in love with a tragic woman he hears crying on his first night at the hotel.Endearing, funny, and highly evocative of time and place, Orphans of Empire celebrates those living in the shadow of historys supposed heroes, their private struggles and personal agendas. Readers who loved Michael Crummeys Galore and Eowyn Iveys To the Bright Edge of the World, will love this vivid novel of arrivals that prods at the ethics of settlement.