Pianos and Flowers
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'A picture paints a thousand words ... this book demonstrates the imagination and skill of McCall Smith to be able to create personal stories from something as simple as a photograph'
» Dundee Courier, Scottish Book of the Week
In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. Les mer
This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbours caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us.
There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realise that these photographs speak volumes.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Birlinn Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 192
- ISBN
- 9781846975240
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
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'A picture paints a thousand words ... this book demonstrates the imagination and skill of McCall Smith to be able to create personal stories from something as simple as a photograph'
» Dundee Courier, Scottish Book of the Week
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'A delightful compendium of short stories'
» Edinburgh Life
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'McCall Smith’s expert handling of conflict and rich imagination make this one his fans will enjoy'
» Publisher's Weekly
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'The beloved author invites us to glimpse a world long departed... from Glasgow slums to Egyptian relics, love, friendship and happiness are the central themes'
» Scots Magazine