Red heaven : a fiction / Nicolas Rothwell
- Bib ID:
- 8613360
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rothwell, Nicolas, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2021
- ©2021
- 378 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781922458049 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Red heaven is the story of a child’s journey to adulthood, his loss of those he loves and his fixing of them in memory. It begins in the late 1960s in Switzerland, as the boy’s ideas about life are being shaped by two rival influences. These are his so-called aunts, imperious, strong-willed, ambitious, both exiles, at the mercy of outside political events; both determined to make the boy into their own heir, an inheritor of their values. In self-contained episodes, each set in an alpine grand hotel, we see one aunt and then the other educate their protégé. Serghiana, the ‘red princess’, is the daughter of a Soviet general, a producer of films and worshipper of art, a true believer. Ady, a former actress and singer, is a dilettante and cynic, Viennese, married to a great conductor: in her eyes, all is surface, truth a mere illusion. Memory and nostalgia, the aunts’ gifts to the boy, gifts of obligation, are the purest expression of love allowed them. Gradually he comes to understand the shadows in their past. Their stories stay with him, guiding his path through adolescence, until he can absorb the influences of the wider world.
- Notes:
- "'It's the pain of longing, the pain of wanting to return and always knowing there's no home...'" -- Cover.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Red Heaven
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2021
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