Книга: The Year Without Summer (Glasfurd Guinevere); Ballantine Books, 2021

1815, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Mount Tambora explodes in a cataclysmic eruption, killing thousands. Sent to investigate, ship surgeon Henry Hoggcan barely believe his eyes. Once a paradise, the island is now solid ash, the surrounding sea turned to stone. But worse is yet to come: as the ash cloud rises and covers the sun, the seasons will fail.

1816
In Switzerland, Mary Shelley finds dark inspiration. Confined inside by the unseasonable weather, thousands of famine refugees stream past her door. In Vermont, preacher Charles Whitlock begs his followers to keep faith as drought dries their wells and their livestock starve.

In Suffolk, the ambitious and lovesick painter John Constable struggles to reconcile the idyllic England he paints with the misery that surrounds him. In the Fens, farm labourer Sarah Hobbs has had enough of going hungry while the farmers flaunt their wealth. And Hope Peter, returned from the Napoleonic wars, finds his family home demolished and a fence gone up in its place. He flees to London, where he falls in with a group of revolutionaries who speak of a better life, whatever the cost. As desperation sets in, Britain becomes beset by riots - rebellion is in the air.

The Year Without Summer is the story of the books written, the art made; of the journeys taken, of the love longed for and the lives lost during that fateful year. Six separate lives, connected only by an event many thousands of miles away. Few had heard of Tambora - but none could escape its effects.

Развернуть фото

Смотри также о книге.

Основные характеристики товара

Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-1-47-367233-8
Автор(ы)	Glasfurd Guinevere
Вес	0.29кг
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Возрастные ограничения	12
Год издания	2021
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Ballantine Books
Издательство	Two Roads
Кол-во страниц	416
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	392
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий переплёт
Раздел	Книги на английском языке
Серия	Yoko
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	127x197мм