Like The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage, this beguiling, heady tale of a scandalous menage a trois among England's upper classes combines memoir and biography to re-create an unforgettably decadent world.Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka Zinovieff's grandparents lived and loved[...]
Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves - and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete's parad[...]
Athens, 1942 - two sisters divided by politics and tragedy...In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. Nik[...]
Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family ha[...]
Athens, 1942 - two sisters divided by politics and tragedy...In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. Ni[...]
Sofka Zinovieff kertoo tässä syvästi henkilökohtaisessa elämäkerrassa isoäitinsä Sofka Dolgorukin, Pietarista paenneen venäläisen emigranttiruhtinattaren myrskyisän, värikkään ja usein skandaalien sävyttämän elämäntarinan.Se saa alkunsa vanhasta päiväkirjasta, jonka nuori Sofka [...]