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The museum guard : a novel

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  • "Defoe Russet, le narrateur, tient du héros malgré lui. Il est élevé par son oncle dans une chambre d'hôtel après avoir perdu ses parents dans un accident de zeppelin. Il devient gardien du Musée Glace et son destin bascule lorsqu'il rencontre la troublante Imogen, la gardienne du cimetière juif. Voici le sage Defoe emporté dans un tourbillon qui balaiera son univers balisé."
  • ""Orphaned By A Zeppelin Crash at Age Nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now 30, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. lie courts the affection of Imogen Linny, caretaker of the Jewish cemetery, whose life is changed by the arrival of a painting, which DeFoe steals for her. Set against the imminent doom of World War II, The Museum Guard explores the mystery of identity, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into the alluring and dangerous sphere of action" -- B&N from the publisher (July 2007)."
  • "A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist."
  • "Orphan DeFoe Russet lives in Halifax with his uncle, an alcoholic museum guard, and after DeFoe becomes a guard in 1938, he meets Imogene Linny, a woman convinced she is a figure in the museum's painting of Jews on an Amsterdam Street."
  • "De vriendin van een jonge suppoost in een museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, vat in 1938 een obsessie op voor een nieuw Nederlands schilderij van een joodse vrouw met wie ze zich steeds meer identificeert."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Der Bilderwächter : Roman"
  • "The museum guard : a novel"@en
  • "The museum guard : a novel"
  • "The Museum Guard"@en
  • "Le gardien de musée"
  • "De suppoost"
  • "The museum guard"
  • "The museum guard"@en
  • "Museumsvagten : roman"@da
  • "El guardián del museo"
  • "El guardián del museo"@es
  • "Museum guard"
  • "La gardien de musée"

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