A Química das Lágrimas
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789896164836
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Gradiva
Pages no: 324
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Australia
bookshelves: spring-2014 Read from March 11 to 30, 2014 description: When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to 'life' a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins to p...
This was fascinating. I loved the chapters from Catherine's perspective: the operation of the museum and the restoration process, how she deals with grief that largely stays hidden, her relationships with her colleagues, and the way it is so firmly anchored in time.The Henry chapters started out gre...
I loved the premise of this. And I did enjoy reading it, but sometimes there was a disconnect and I found myself having to go back because I felt like I'd missed something. I wanted to know more at the ending, like I wanted an absolute answer to the "mystery". I know why it wasn't spelled out, but ...
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