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This novel moves from Venice in the twenties to post-World War II Amsterdam as it explores the themes of fascism, brutality, death, sex, vengeance, and moral action
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At 83, Jeremy Burnham, ex-Foreign Service Officer and self-described conventional Englishman, sets out to write his memoirs. He finds himself focusing on two brief episodes in his career, connected only because they concern his friendship with the Jewish Anthony Manet, one of the last members of the intellectual, liberal, cosmopolitan subculture that flourished in Europe prior to World War I, and the question of where one's responsibilities lie when faced with man's inhumanity to man. Whether one is considering a murder in Venice in 1923 or Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands following World War II, the answer to that question is more complex than one might like. Readers seeking fast-paced action will be disappointed with Bhabra's first novel, but those who are patient will find its richness and complexity rewarding. Recommended. David W. Henderson, Eck erd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 014009265X
- ISBN 13 9780140092653
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages279
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. reprint. Gestures is the fictional autobiography of gentleman and career diplomat Jeremy Burnham, a man caught in the social, political and sexual flux of the twentieth century. \nHis story begins in 1923, when, as a young and inexperienced foreign service officer, he arrives in the ancient and exotic city of Venice to take up his first post. He falls into a friendship with an attractive older woman, Jane Carlyle, who initiates him into Venetian society by providing introductions to the enigmatic Eva van Woerden, and to the mysterious and cosmopolitan Jewish art connoisseur Anthony Manet. Their lives and destinies become intertwined, as Venice, and all Italy, falls under the shadow of encroaching fascism. When one of them is brutally murdered, a chain of events ensues that reaches its climax more than twenty years later, in the ruins of postwar Amsterdam. Only then are the lessons of courage and moral responsibility implicit in that earlier death at last made plain. And Jeremy's elegant memoirs are revealed for what they are: a testament of complicity in the barbarism of the century.\n\nA beautiful and terrible reflection on memory and accountability, Gestures is a tale of eloquent and tragic force. clean secondhand copy with no damage to describe Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; British & Irish; Contemporary; ISBN: 014009265X. ISBN/EAN: 9780140092653. Inventory No: 0263763. Seller Inventory # 0263763
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