At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste...Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century.Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC (Lydbok): 9781662055355
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 27. mai 2021
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At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste...Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century.Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC (Lydbok): 9781662055355
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 27. mai 2021
Tagger
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Anne Gunn
26. apr. 2023
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Irene
4. mars 2022
Innleser ødelegger med sin skrikende dramatikk. Ble for slitsomt å lytte til.
Maia
19. juli 2021
Dette gjorde meg så godt, jeg mener litteraturprodukt. Litt oppspilt leser, men boka mister ikke sin verdighet. Det er skjelden jeg leser et murstein, det gjorde jeg nå, måtte ta den fysiske boka i tillegg, håper den norske utgaven blir også spilt inn på lyd.
Sigrid
28. aug. 2023
Fantastisk skildring av flere generasjoner og dramatiske (historiske) hendelser. Til tider noe melodramatisk ved innleser, men alt i alt veldig bra!
Beate
26. feb. 2024
Fantastisk! Oppslukende historie. Anbefales
Espen
13. juni 2021
Veldig irriterende oppleser, delvis klisje karakterer
Lise
1. juni 2023
Well written, interesting context and strong stories
Karianne
8. apr. 2022
Veldig lang, men veldig god. Jeg synes innleseren var god, og det ble ikke «for mye drama» for min del. Det er en murstein av ei bok, men den er verdt de 40 timene👍🏻
Siv
19. nov. 2023
Hva e det med amerikanske opplesere? Tror de det er et skuespill debet med på. Sikkert god bok synd den blir ødelagt. Håper den kommer med en bedre oppleser også.
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