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Divisadero

Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present.

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  • ""In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives."--Jacket."
  • "Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present."
  • "Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present."@en
  • "In California, then the Nevada casino's, 1970 a makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event and they are sent off on separate courses."
  • "Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family, Anna finds refuge in south-central France, in an isolated house once occupied by a writer, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present, the demands of family, love, and memory."
  • "Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family, Anna finds refuge in south-central France, in an isolated house once occupied by a writer, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present, the demands of family, love, and memory."@en
  • "It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that 'sets fire to the rest of their lives'. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory."@en
  • "Claire moves slowly on the ridge above the two valleys full of morning mist. The coast is to her left. On her right is the journey to Sacramento and the delta towns such as Rio Vista with its populations left over from the Gold Rush. She persuades the horse down through the whiteness alongside crowded trees. She has been smelling smoke for the last twenty minutes, and, on the outskirts of Glen Ellen, she sees the town bar on fire--the local arsonist has struck early, when certain it would be empty. She watches from a distance without dismounting. The horse, Territorial, seldom allows a remount; in this he can be fooled only once a day. The two of them, rider and animal, don't fully trust each other, although the horse is my sister Claire's closest ally. She will use every trick not in the book to stop his rearing and bucking. She carries plastic bags of water with her and leans forward and smashes them onto his neck so the animal believes it is his own blood and will calm for a minute. When Claire is on a horse she loses her limp and is in charge of the universe, a centaur. Someday she will meet and marry a centaur."@en
  • "Ondaatje's oddly structured but emotionally riveting fifth novel opens in the Northern California of the 1970s. Anna, who is 16 and whose mother died in childbirth, has formed a serene makeshift family with her same-age adopted sister, Claire, and a taciturn farmhand, Coop, 20. But when the girls' father, otherwise a ghostly presence, finds Anna having sex with Coop and beats him brutally, Coop leaves the farm, drawing on a cardsharp's skills to make an itinerant living as a poker player. A chance meeting years later reunites him with Claire. Runaway teen Anna, scarred by her father's savage reaction, resurfaces as an adult in a rural French village, researching the life of a Gallic author, Jean Segura, who lived and died in the house where she has settled. The novel here bifurcates, veering almost a century into the past to recount Segura's life before WWI, leaving the stories of Coop, Claire and Anna enigmatically unresolved. The dreamlike Segura novella, juxtaposed with the longer opening section, will challenge readers to uncover subtle but explosive links between past and present. Ondaatje's first fiction in six years lacks the gut punch of Anil's Ghost and the harrowing meditation on brutality that marked The English Patient, but delivers his trademark seductive prose, quixotic characters and psychological intricacy."@en
  • "Vpervye na russkom - novyi roman ot avtora "Angliiskogo patsienta", udivitelnogo bestsellera, kotoryi pokoril chitatelei vseh kontinentov, byl otmechen samoi prestijnoi v angloyazychnom mire Bukerovskoi premiei i poslujil osnovoi znamenitogo kinofilma, poluchivshego devyat "Oskarov". Snova pered nami tonkaya i poetichnaya istoriya lyubvi, vernee - tselyh tri istorii, beskonechno uvlekatelnyh i rezoniruyuschih na raznyh urovnyah. Ih geroi vyrvany iz sovmestnogo proshlogo, no sohranyayut svyaz drug s drugom, vysvechivaya smysl togo, chto znachit byt v seme ili odnomu na vsem belom svete. Povestvovanie propitano ideei dvoinika, dvuh lichnostei v odnoi obolochke, i potomu kaliforniiskaya ferma nahodit svoe otrajenie v staroi frantsuzskoi usadbe, sobytiya Pervoi mirovoi pereklikayutsya s telereportajami o voine v Persidskom zalive, a kartochnyi shuler budto slivaetsya s tsyganom-gitaristom po tu storonu Atlantiki."
  • "In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence, of both hand and heart - that sets fire to the rest of their lives."@en
  • "In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence, of both hand and heart - that sets fire to the rest of their lives."
  • "From northern California to central France, Anna seeks to understand her relationship with her sister Claire and with Coop, an orphaned boy who was raised with them."@en
  • "A makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event."
  • "Anna, Claire und Cooper leben als Kinder wie Geschwister bei Annas Vater. Als sich Anna in Cooper verliebt und ihr Vater ausrastet, bricht alles auseinander. Anna und Cooper ziehen weit weg, Claire bleibt in der Gegend und bringt sie schliesslich wieder zusammen."
  • "Northern California, 1970s. A father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. There is a makeshift family, unit it is riven by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. DIVISADER takes us from the city of San Francisto to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. As the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past."
  • "Een traumatische gebeurtenis in hun tienerjaren drijft twee Amerikaanse zussen en een pleegbroer uit elkaar."
  • "Vpervye па Русском - Новый римский OT avtora "Angliiskogo patsienta", udivitelnogo bestsellera, kotoryi pokoril chitatelei vseh kontinentov, быль otmechen samoi prestijnoi V angloyazychnom грязи Bukerovskoi premiei я poslujil osnovoi znamenitogo kinofilma, poluchivshego Девять "теряет смысл". Snova pered НАМИ Тонкая я poetichnaya История любви, vernee - tselyh три истории, beskonechno uvlekatelnyh я rezoniruyuschih па raznyh urovnyah. Ih герои vyrvany ИЗ sovmestnogo proshlogo не sohranyayut Связь препарата с drugom, vysvechivaya smysl Того, Что znachit БЮТ V сема Или odnomu па Vsem belom Свете. Povestvovanie propitano ideei dvoinika, dvuh lichnostei V odnoi obolochke, я potomu kaliforniiskaya ферма nahodit svoe otrajenie V staroi frantsuzskoi usadbe, события Первой мировой pereklikayutsya с telereportajami о войне у Persidskom zalive, kartochnyi Шулер budto slivaetsya с tsyganom-gitaristom По ту сторону Atlantiki."
  • "Anna et Claire vivent avec leur père dans une ferme de Californie. Après l'assassinat d'une famille dans une ferme voisine, ils recueillent Cooper, le seul survivant. Le garçon devient vite l'idole de la famille. Mais bientôt Anna et lui tombent amoureux et leur passion découverte, Cooper s'enfuit. Vingt plus tard, chacun a tracé son chemin."
  • "From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence -- of both hand and heart -- that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos, and eventually to the landscape of south central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time -- Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around "the raw truth" of Anna's own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multi-layered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date. --- Book Description."

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Genre littéraire"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Canadian fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large print books"@en
  • "Advance copies (Printing)"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Spanish language edition"
  • "Popular literature"

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  • "Fen li"
  • "分離"
  • "Divisadero"@pl
  • "Divisadero"@es
  • "Divisadero"@fi
  • "Divisadero"@en
  • "Divisadero"
  • "Divisadero"@it
  • "Divisadero : roman"
  • "Divizadero : vep"
  • "Ruʼā al-inqisām : riwāya"
  • "Divisadero : Annas bok"@sv
  • "Divisadero : book club in a bag"@en
  • "Divisadero : romaan"
  • "Дивисадеро"
  • "Divisadero Roman"
  • "Divisadero : [a novel]"
  • "Divisadero : Roman"
  • "Ruʼā al-inqisām : riwāyah"
  • "Divisadero [CD]"

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