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Title: CLARA'S TALE
By: Pierre Peju
Format: Paperback

List price: £7.99


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ISBN 10: 0099499339
ISBN 13: 9780099499336
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 7 August, 2008
Pages: 320
Description: Paul, a young Frenchman, meets Clara in the Bavarian village of Kehlstein during the 1960s. He is the son of a Resistance fighter, murdered in mysterious circumstances; she, the daughter of a doctor who had served in the Wehrmacht.
Synopsis: Paul, the son of a Resistance fighter murdered in mysterious circumstances, meets Clara on an exchange trip to Bavaria in the 1960s. He is enthralled by the beautiful and self-possessed young woman and her fascination with photography, but as their relationship deepens he learns more about the tragedy that haunts her. As their paths cross and intertwine in often unexpected ways over the years they each fulfil their own ambitions - Paul becomes a sculptor, she a photographer - but in their work, as in their lives, neither can escape the legay of horrors committed before their birth.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage
Returns: Returnable
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