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The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930s. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists.Now, at the end of the century, only two of the original inhabitants still occupy their chambers - Celeste Zylberstein, joint architect with her late husband of the Nautilus, and Francis Campion, an elderly poet. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until, to the Nautilus, like a hermit crab seeking a home, comes Rowena Snow. Of Indian/Scottish parentage, orphaned, without family or friends, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - or the Heligoland of her childhood imagination.Shorlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award.
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Heligoland, Shena Mackay
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Título
- Heligoland
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Shena Mackay
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 199
- ISBN10
- 0099273594
- ISBN13
- 9780099273592
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Ficción contemporánea, Gran Bretaña, Londres
- Calificación
- 3,05 de 5
- Descripción
- The Nautilus, a strange building shaped like the chambered shell of the same name, was built in South London in the early 1930s. Designed on Modernist and Utopian principles, it was a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists.Now, at the end of the century, only two of the original inhabitants still occupy their chambers - Celeste Zylberstein, joint architect with her late husband of the Nautilus, and Francis Campion, an elderly poet. Gus Crabb, a dealer in bric-a-brac, is the only other resident until, to the Nautilus, like a hermit crab seeking a home, comes Rowena Snow. Of Indian/Scottish parentage, orphaned, without family or friends, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - or the Heligoland of her childhood imagination.Shorlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award.