Bookbot

A Soldier of the Great War

Valoración del libro

4,4(6612)Añadir reseña

Parámetros

Páginas
860 páginas
Tiempo de lectura
31 horas

Más información sobre el libro

From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war. Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man—a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe—tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it's a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family.

Compra de libros

A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin

Idioma
Publicado en
2005
Te avisaremos por correo electrónico en cuanto lo localicemos.

Métodos de pago

4,4
Muy bueno
6612 Valoraciones

Nos falta tu reseña aquí