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House of shadows / Diane Meur ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Title
House of shadows / Diane Meur ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Author
Meur, Diane, 1970-
Publication
London : Seagull Books, 2015.

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Additional Authors
Fagan, Teresa Lavender
Description
428 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. The history of Eastern Europe is told through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate in the decades of violence and political confusion that follow. The author calls upon an unusual narrator: the ancestral house itself -- the House of Shadows of the title -- which, from behind its unmoving facade, watches the comings and goings of generations of inhabitants. the house is everywhere in the story, hearing and observing everything; it encompasses all the shadows of a past that it knows better than the occupants.
Series Statement
French list
Uniform Title
  • Vivants et les ombres. English
  • French list.
Alternative Title
Vivants et les ombres.
Subject
Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) > History > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780857420282
  • 0857420283
OCLC
760973174
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library