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House of shadows

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Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Publication Date: 4/06/2013
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $38.95
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After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe in miniature told through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate in the decades of violence and political confusion that follow. In this extraordinary novel, Diane Meur calls upon an unusual narrator: the ancestral house itself - the House of Shadows of the title - which, from behind its unmoving facade, watches the comings and goings of generations of inhabitants. The house is everywhere in the story, hearing and observing everything; it encompasses all the shadows of a past that it knows better than its occupants do. But it envies the mobility of those who reside there, and though the years pass, nothing changes for the house.