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The sound of butterflies

Amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar leaves his young wife, Sophie, behind, and sets off from turn-of-the-20th-century England for the Brazilian Amazon. His quarry is an elusive butterfly that he hopes to be the first to find and name for his wife the Papilio sophia. Thomas returns to England many months later physically weak, obviously disturbed and unable to speak. Frustrated and concerned, Sophie desperately seeks the cause of his turmoil. Her search reveals a world of corruption and violence, spearheaded by the rubber tycoon, Mr. Santos.

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  • "Sound of butterflies"@it

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  • "Amateur naturalist Thomas Edgar leaves his young wife, Sophie, behind, and sets off from turn-of-the-20th-century England for the Brazilian Amazon. His quarry is an elusive butterfly that he hopes to be the first to find and name for his wife the Papilio sophia. Thomas returns to England many months later physically weak, obviously disturbed and unable to speak. Frustrated and concerned, Sophie desperately seeks the cause of his turmoil. Her search reveals a world of corruption and violence, spearheaded by the rubber tycoon, Mr. Santos."@en
  • "It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition to find the mythical butterfly that will makes his name. But on his return, his wife Sophie is appalled by the change in him: his is thin, obviously sick, and apparently so traumatised by what he witnessed, he has been rendered mute. As Thomas struggles to find the words to describe what he's seen, it's unclear whether or not Sophie - and their marriage - will be able to withstand what he has to tell her, for the story that unfolds, the story behind Thomas's silence, is one of great brutality."
  • "It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition. Hoping to find the mythical butterfly that will make his name and immortalize that of his wife, Sophie - for if he finds it, he will call it the Papilio sophia - he eagerly accepts the invitation, and embarks on a journey that will take him to a whole new world." "On his return, Sophie greets her husband at the railway station, and is appalled by the change in him: he is thin, obviously sick, and apparently so traumatized by what he witnessed while he was away, he has been rendered mute. As Thomas struggles to find the words to describe what he's seen, it's unclear whether or not Sophie - and their marriage - will be able to withstand what he has to tell her."
  • "Contemporary fiction. Large Print. An international bestseller this novel follows an unforgettable journey from the demure gentility of turn - of - the - twentieth - century England into the heart of darkness. In 1904, the young lepidopterist Thomas Edgar arrives home from a collecting expedition in the Amazon. His young wife Sophie is unprepared for his emaciated state and, even worse, his inability - or unwillingness - to speak. Sophie's genteel and demure life in Edwardian England contrasts starkly with the decadence of Brazil's rubber boom, as we are taken back to Thomas's arrival in the Amazon and his search for a mythical butterfly. Up the river, via the opulent city of Manaus - where the inhabitants feed their horses champagne and aspire to all things European - Thomas's extraordinary, and increasingly obsessed, journey carries him through the exotic and the erotic to some terrible truths. Back home, unable to break through Thomas's silence, Sophie is forced to take increasingly drastic measures to discover what has happened. But as she scavenges what she can from Thomas's diaries and boxes of exquisite butterflies, she learns as much about herself as about her husband."
  • "Een pasgetrouwde vrouw vraagt zich begin 20e eeuw af wat er met haar echtgenoot is gebeurd als hij na een expeditie in de Braziliaanse jungle thuiskomt en niet meer wil spreken."
  • "Een pasgetrouwde vrouw vraagt zich begin 20e eeuw af wat er met haar echtgenoot is gebeurd als hij na een expeditie in de Braziliaanse jungle thuiskomt en niet meer wil spreken."@en
  • "It is 1903. Thomas Edgar, a passionate collector of butterflies, is offered the chance of a lifetime: to travel to the Amazon as part of a scientific expedition. Hoping to find the mythical butterfly, he eagerly accepts the invitation. On his return, his wife, Sophie greets him at the railway station, and is appalled by the change in him."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "New Zealand fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "La musica delle farfalle"
  • "La musica delle farfalle"@it
  • "Polet babochek : [roman]"
  • "The sound of butterflies"@en
  • "The sound of butterflies"
  • "Полет бабочек : [роман]"
  • "Der Ruf des Schmetterlings Roman"
  • "Der Ruf des Schmetterlings : Roman"
  • "The Sound of Butterflies"@en

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