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 (Ljudbok): 9781662055355
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 27 maj 2021
Taggar
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 (Ljudbok): 9781662055355
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 27 maj 2021
Taggar
Kliv in i en oändlig värld av stories
Helhetsbetyg baserat på 172 betyg
Bladvändare
Informativ
Tankeväckande
Ladda ner appen för att vara med i snacket och lämna recensioner.
Visar 4 av 172
Barbara
24 dec. 2021
It is better than War and Peace, with exception of the last episode that is kitschy, and almost kills the book. The reader is very good, but she could be helped by Georgians, etc. If Stalin is Stalin, how can it be ”Shtalingrad”? And it is not “Tibilísi”, but “Tbílisi”, and so on…
Eva
27 aug. 2021
Lång historia som hänger ihop hela vägen, väl värd att lyssnas på.
Helen
12 aug. 2021
Fantastisk inläsare.
Susan
18 dec. 2021
Tycker om böcker som binder ihop människor och tid som denna. Bra skriven, intressant, ibland tog den tag i mig ibland inte.
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