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The violins of Saint-Jacques

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From amazon dot com: "This slim book starts with the meeting of an English traveler and an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman on an Aegean island. He is captivated by her painting of a busy Caribbean port in the shadow of a volcano, which leads her to tell him the story of her childhood in that town back at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tale she unfolds, set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint-Jacques, is one of romantic intrigue and decadence involving the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Then, on the night of the annual Mardi Gras ball, a whole world comes to a catastrophic and haunting end."

From Google Books: "Originally published in 1953, this novel was immediately hailed as a rare sweep of color across the drab post-war years. Fermor's writing about this tropical island is as beautiful and haunting as the sound of the violins rising from the water, which is all that remains of the island and its inhabitants."

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Language
English
Pages
148

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Cover of: The violins of Saint-Jacques
The violins of Saint-Jacques
1985, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: The violins of Saint-Jacques
The violins of Saint-Jacques: a tale of the Antilles
1977, St. Martin's Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Oxford [Oxfordshire], New York
Series
Twentieth-century classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6056.E65 V5 1985, PR6056.E6/

The Physical Object

Pagination
148 p. :
Number of pages
148

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2864312M
Internet Archive
violinsofsaintja0000ferm_c3c7
ISBN 10
0192818775
LCCN
84027286
OCLC/WorldCat
11519652
Library Thing
218610
Goodreads
2451988

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