Summary
In a brasserie off the Boulevard St-Germain, a renowned novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman’s hands folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for this story of love and jealousy. The novelist’s orderly life vanishes the instant he admires this strange woman’s hands; the discipline of forty fruitful years dissolves.
On an impulse, he proposes. She answers without…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099449829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009944982X |
| Author: | Brina Svit |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Con Brio explores the different ways men and women experience love, desire, absolute devotion, and the mystery each has for the other
Con Brio explores the different ways men and women experience love, desire, absolute devotion, and the mystery each has for the other * Le Monde *
Brina Svit
Brina Svit was born in Slovenia in 1959, and divides her time between Paris and Slovenia. She works as a journalist, screenwriter and director, and has also written novels, among them Con Brio and Death of a Prima Donna have been translated into English.
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