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Dr. Leonardo's Journey to Sloboda Switzerland with His Future Lover, the Beautiful Alcesta - Halyna Hryn Genre:FantasyItalian doctor Leonardo Pazzi and Alcesta, his "future lover," travel through the picturesque, hilly region of Sloboda, near Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine. They experience a series of encounters with local Ukrainians and nature, disappearances, and transformations filled with paradoxes. The characters are bright, marionette like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices
stimulating and challenging
and listen to the lessons of the forest
There is a luminous conviction to the prose' Observer'Notions of home are poignantly explored
The writing and research do it such justice
He has seen the face of evil and he has set his will to fight it
he seeks solace in his infatuation with an older girl
affairs with patients
professional hedgelayer Richard Negus takes us on a journey that reveals these ribbons of thorn and barb are so much more than mere decoration or boundary markers
will have you gasping with disbelief in the last few pages' Sunday Express'A beautiful book
It didn't matter that he committed the crime or that she wished he was dead
Combining global travel and in-depth research
An incredible debut about second chances' The Sun'The Golden Boy is not just an astoundingly ambitious novel