After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate in the decades of violence and political confusion that follow. In this extraordinary novel, Diane Meur calls upon an unusual narrator: the ancestral house itselfthe House of Shadows of the titlewhich, from behind its unmoving facade, watches the comings and goings of...
After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroil...
Diane Meur Sunandini Banerjee Teresa Lavender Fagan
In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin and towns large and small, Diane Meur has dreamt and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume the author shares her dreams of the years 2008 10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. As she writes in the preface, They are not my life, they are not my writing, they are just the dreams I had, remembered, and noted down: all of them, and every part of them, without censure or omission. Some dreams are humorous: peeling a scorpion like a shrimp and finding it isn t half bad; some are poignant: a tiny...
In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin and towns large and small, Diane Meur has dreamt and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume the autho...
