Sarah Emily Miano Livres

A lost notebook is discovered, its pages filled with an array of entries about snow. Leafing through each item in turn, it becomes apparent that the selection is not as haphazard as first glances might suggest. Scientific description, historical accounts and fantastical incidents slowly, teasingly unfold to reveal a series of love-stories, at the heart of which is one particular story -- a story that twists and threads through the various excerpts and extracts to form a letter to an absent lover. 'Glints with myth and magic ...bold and exhilarating' Observer 'All the delicacy of an intricate piece of ice sculpture ...The effect of the different entries swirling and spiraling is kaleidoscopic' Sunday Telegraph

Amsterdam, 1667. Pieter Blaeu, a young publisher, meets the aged, destitute painter Rembrandt van Rijn, and is powerfully drawn into his orbit. Together with a poet named Clara he begins a pursuit of the elusive man's confidence, in a quest that is at once a love affair and a layered, luminous portrait of a most mysterious artist and his world. "Here are the sights, smells, sounds and colours of the Dutch golden age alchemised into fictional gold...The marriage of art, history and fiction has rarely been so alive. A cause for celebration" - "The Times". "It is no mean feat for a young writer to pitch herself against the great master and attempt to achieve in prose the explorations of identity that Rembrandt achieved in paint...Van Rijn returns us to [the paintings] with a renewed sense of wonder" - "TLS". "An enticing journey into the past, well observed and researched, and providing a tour of the alternative artistic life of the seventeenth century" - "Sunday Times".

Krátko po letnej búrke, ktorá minulý týždeň nečakane postihla predmestie Buffala, sa našlo opustené auto. Patrilo Sarah Emily Mianovej, ktorá sa nedávno vrátila do rodného mesta. Polícia objavila v kufri auta zviazaný rukopis s názvom Encyklopédia snehu, autorkou je pravdepodobne Mianová, aj keď sa zdá, že na ňom spolupracovala s neidentifikovaným švajčiarskym alchymistom, ktorý sa celý život venoval skúmaniu snehu. Polícia hľadá ďalšie stopy v nezvyčajnom dokumente, ktorý na základe historických i fantastických príhod rozpráva o veľmi zvláštnom vzťahu dvoch ľudí.

In einem fesselnden biografischen Roman erweckt Sarah Emily Miano den geheimnisvollen Maler Rembrandt und das bezaubernde Amsterdam zum Leben, indem sie die Nähe von Pracht und Schatten, Triumph und Niederlage in seinem Leben thematisiert.