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Sto caricando le informazioni... Only the Beautiful (originale 2023; edizione 2023)di Susan Meissner (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaOnly the Beautiful di Susan Meissner (2023)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Wow. Well this is definitely an eye opener for me. I thought this book was very well written and researched thoroughly. Its good to know this mutilation of people isn't happening in our part of the world anymore. ( ) It's another hit for me from this author. This time, her historical fiction story pulls back the curtain on eugenics back in the 1930s and 1940s (which continued in many states for decades afterward.) I loved 16 yo Rosanne who has lost her parents and only sibling, taken in by the owners of the vineyard that had employed her parents, but treated as a maid instead of family. Rosanne is "different" in that she sees colors when she hears things, which lands her in a mental institution. The horror of fact behind this fiction makes the story even more gripping and the author does a fabulous job of enlightening the reader while entertaining us with interesting characters and several subplots. I loved the characters (the ones that were loveable!) and the way the story played out. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this fantastic read. It is 1938 in California and Roseanne Maras is sixteen years old and her family (Mom, Dad & brother) have died in a tragic accident. She has been growing up on a vineyard owned by the Calverts. When her family dies, Truman & Celine Calvert take her in as custodians. Rosie has a secret. She sees colors when she hears sounds. She promised her mother she would never tell anyone. But Rosie has told two people about this and, ergo, her life takes turns for the worse because of it. It is Europe in 1947. Truman Calvert's sister Helen has been living in Europe and being a nanny to several families. She had been in contact with her brother and also with Rosie through the years. This novel is a wonderful meshing of these lives. Horrible things go on that are part of history. World War II and all of the atrocities that were part of that are all part of this novel. Simply beautiful story of a mother's love. In 1938, Rosie is orphaned, and taken in by the family who owns the vineyard. She has synesthesia, which means she sees colors when she hears things. Her parents told her to be careful with this secret, because it was misunderstood, and people felt that she was damaged. One night, Rosie is impregnated, and when Celine Calvert finds out, she sends her away to a hospital for the mentally ill. There, she delivers her child, but gets sterilized, as part of the eugenics program. Her baby is taken from her. In 1947, Helen (sister of Truman, Celine's husband) cares for a child with some deformities who is taken by Hitler's party and killed. She is appalled. She finds out about Rosie, her child, and her connection. She is determined to find the baby. Beautifully written. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Historical Fiction.
HTML:A heartrending story about a young mother??s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938??When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser??s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert??s spacious house with a secret, however??Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she??d never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. Driven by her loneliness she not only breaks the vow to her mother, but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant. Banished by the Calverts, Rosanne believes she is bound for a home for unwed mothers, and having lost her family she treasures her pregnancy as the chance for a future one. But she soon finds out she is not going to a home of any kind, but to a place far worse than anything she could have imagined. Austria, 1947??After witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitler??s brutal pursuit of hereditary purity??especially with regard to ??different children???Helen Calvert, Truman's sister, is ready to return to America for good. But when she arrives at her brother??s peaceful vineyard after decades working abroad, she is shocked to learn what really happened nine years earlier to the vinedresser??s daughter, a girl whom Helen had long ago befriended. In her determination to find Rosanne, Helen discovers that while the war had been won in Europe, there are stil Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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