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Cargando... The Good Mayorpor Andrew Nicoll
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Tibo Krobic, respetable y admirado alcalde de una remota localidad del Mar Báltico, se enamora de su secretaria Agathe Stopack, una mujer casada pero con graves problemas en su matrimonio. Ambos son almas solitarias necesitadas de amor. Pero Tibo es un hombre demasiado romántico y soñador, que no termina de dar el paso, y Agathe se cansa de esperar y entabla una relación formal con Hektor, primo de su marido, un hombre violento… Aun así Tibo no desistirá en su empeño de conseguir a Agathe. Tibo Krobic, respetable y admirado alcalde de una remota localidad del Mar Báltico, se enamora de su secretaria Agathe Stopack, una mujer casada pero con graves problemas en su matrimonio. Ambos son almas solitarias necesitadas de amor. Pero Tibo es un hombre demasiado romántico y soñador, que no termina de dar el paso, y Agathe se cansa de esperar y entabla una relación formal con Hektor, primo de su marido, un hombre violento… Aun así Tibo no desistirá en su empeño de conseguir a Agathe.
Nicoll caresses words. The story is full of sensual detail, of brass bands, fat night moths, dewy cakes – and snows “sweeping the town with frozen feathers that fell into the Ampersand with a hot hiss.” It takes place in an alternative mid-20th-century time frame of clattering typewriters, high heels and trams. Near the end of The Good Mayor, the narrator confesses that "this story is much more about the telling than the things that happen in it". It's an apt observation because a quick reviewer's résumé of the plot makes the novel sound a lot less than it is.
In a busy little city in a forgotten corner of the Baltic, in an office on the square, the beloved mayor of Dot lies on his office floor, peering beneath his door. Tibo Krovic has come to work from his house down at the end of a blue-tiled path. He's taken, as usual, the tram seven stops, and walked the final two. He's stopped for strong Viennese coffee. And now Tibo Krovic is looking at the perfectly beautiful feet of his voluptuous, unhappily married secretary, Mrs. Agathe Stopak. The Good Mayor is badly in love. And over the course of days, months, and years, amid life's daily routine--a fallen lunch pail, a single touch . . . a handwritten note and then a terrible choice--he and Agathe must come to terms with this thing that has seized hold of them both, exploring the tastes of desire and despair, love, friendship, and betrayal. . . . Until fate, magic, and their own actions lift them from their moorings--toward an utterly unexpected future. Their tortuous road to bliss is fraught with phantom circus performers, malevolent painters, rotund lawyers, mysterious fortune-tellers--and every single one of love's astonishing little cruelties and miracles. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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