Description
In the late nineteenth century, two Irish teenagers, Clare and Rose, are sent from home to Rome to be trained as opera singers—an education that comes with expectations, obligations, and the pressure to repay what their communities invest in their futures. As they move from Ireland to France and across Italy, their disciplined pursuit of music collides with the messy, transformative force of love, desire, and identity, reshaping what they thought they wanted from the stage and from each other. Kate O’Brien’s richly European storytelling blends the glamour of performance with the emotional costs of ambition, separation, and loss. With a keen ear for opera and a compassionate eye for young lives under strain, this novel explores art as both calling and constraint, and love as both refuge and risk.
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ebook
Penguin Group UK
Published Jan 1, 2009
394 pages
ISBN: 9780141926964
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First Published
1958
Language
eng
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