The Tea Rose is a towering old-fashioned story, imbued with a modern sensibility, of a family's destruction, of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again, and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph. East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the poor. Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams. But Fiona's dreams are shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death at the dark man's hands, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit-and the ghosts of her past-propel her rise from a modest west side shopfront to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. Authentic and moving, Jennifer Donnelly's The Tea Rose is an unforgettable novel.
Sobre o autor(a)
Donnelly, Jennifer
Jennifer Donnelly é uma romancista coroada com diversos prêmios, como a Medalha Carnegie, o Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Odyssey Honor for Excellence e o Borders Original Voices Award. Ela é autora do aclamado Stepsister: a história da meia-irmã da Cinderella e A Bela e a Fera: perdida em um livro, ambos publicados no Brasil pela Universo dos Livros. Ela se formou na Universidade de Rochester, onde estudou Literatura Inglesa e História Europeia. Atualmente, Jennifer mora em Hudson Valley, Nova York. |
| ISBN | 9780312378028 |
| Autor(a) | Donnelly, Jennifer |
| Editora | St. Martin's Griffin - US |
| Ano de edição | 2007 |
| Páginas | 592 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |