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Love in the years of lunacy

A moving, tender and compelling story of forbidden love set amid the devastation of war from the award-winning author of Dreamtime Alice.

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  • "Pearl Willis, an 18-year-old saxophone player living in 1942 Sydney, is a pretty lucky girl. She plays regularly at the posh Trocadero ballroom and gets to sit in with her brother{u2019}s band, playing jazz standards and new pieces at some of the hottest underground GI clubs in the city. It{u2019}s at the Booker T. Washington club that she meets jazz celebrity James Washington, an African American GI who immediately falls for Pearl. When James is shipped out to New Guinea, Pearl has to decide how much she{u2019}s willing to sacrifice to stay with him."
  • "A moving, tender and compelling story of forbidden love set amid the devastation of war from the award-winning author of Dreamtime Alice."@en
  • "From an award-winning novelist comes a wonderfully inspiring story about the ill-fated love affair between a white female jazz saxophonist and a black American GI, set against the backdrop of 1940s Sydney. Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful, and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother, Martin, who also plays the sax. One evening, black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and love begins to unfold against the blacked-out nights and rumor-filled days of a city in the grip of war. When James is shipped out to fight in New Guinea, Pearl hatches a breathtaking plan to reunite with him. And then all hell breaks loose. Internationally acclaimed author Mandy Sayer writes with astonishing insight and tenderness in this audaciously original novel'a romance with a haunting jazz soundtrack and a war story like no other."@en
  • "Zwischen Krieg und Frieden. Zwischen Liebe und Pflicht. Sydney, 1942. Die junge Pearl spielt leidenschaftlich gern Saxophon. In einer schicksalhaften Nacht trifft sie den schwarzen GI James, und ein paar glückliche Wochen lang verlieren sie sich gemeinsam in der Musik und in einer heimlichen Liebe. Denn die Gesellschaft verurteilt ihre Beziehung, und der Krieg droht, alles zu zerstören. Als James in ein gefährliches Gebiet fernab von Australien versetzt wird, ist Pearl zu allem bereit, um ihn wiederzusehen. Sie ersinnt einen waghalsigen Plan - und stellt sich den Regeln der Zeit und der über allem schwebenden Gefahr des Krieges entgegen ... Mandy Sayer wird von der Kritik als eine der herausragenden jungen Autorinnen Australiens bezeichnet. Sie hat mehrere Romane veröffentlicht und schreibt als freie Journalistin für Medien wie The Spectator, The Australian und Sydney Morning Herald. Bis ans Ende des Horizonts ist ihr erster Roman, der in deutscher Sprache erscheint."
  • "Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening, black GI and jazz prodigy James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Love in the years of lunacy"
  • "Love in the years of lunacy"@en
  • "Love in the Years of Lunacy"@en
  • "Bis ans Ende des Horizonts Roman"
  • "Bis ans ende des horizonts : roman"
  • "Love in the years of lunacy a novel"@en

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