Author: Diane Setterfield
Translator: Jin Lee
Publisher: Bichae
600 pages | 127 * 193 * 40 mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was
her destiny.
All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of
reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as
famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for
the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.
The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish
life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought
her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret.
Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her
extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman
for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her
most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between
Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.
As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is
mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield
family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins
Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a
devastating fire.
Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains
suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida,
and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while
becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral
reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our
parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep
you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in
the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of
your everyday life.
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