Parallel Lives A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears (Hardcover)

Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

Parallel Lives A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears (Hardcover)This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family who survived the siege of Leningrad by eating cats tails and being evacuated over the ice. Francis was the grandson of an Iraqi Jew, forever

'Don't laugh

An adventure story

each jigsaw is an entertaining puzzle and piece of art in one

then transformed it with a ruthless rapidity that has enraged opponents from the left just as much as it has bewildered those on the right

bringing artistic elegance

Kashmiri Chicken Curry

Cut off from nature

Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the war

where views were exchanged on politics

provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune

his father’s dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton)

This accessible and comprehensive book shines a light on the design history of the famous Anglepoise lamp

Exchange/Return Notes