The Violins of Saint Jacques (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192818775 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, August 1985
The unorthodox romances, unrestrained passions, and unappeasable feuds of the antiquated French aristocracy and slave-descended commoners of a remote Caribbean island peak at the Mardi Gras Ball of 1902, while the island's volcano broods and flickers in the background
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Originally published in 1953, this novel was immediately hailed as a rare sweep of color across the drab post-war years. Fermor's writing about this tropical island is as beautiful and haunting as the sound of the violins rising from the water, which is all that remains of the island and itsinhabitants.
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