Author: SCHONSTEIN, PATRICIA
Title: A Time of Angels
Description: London, Bantam. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0593051769). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. The South African author's second novel is of Primo Verona, a professional magician and soothsayer, who is born with a gift of clairvoyance so strong that he was able to predict his own mother's death while still in her womb. He is brought up on a rich diet of astronomy, philosophy and storytelling by his watchmaker father and widowed aunt, both survivors of Auschwitz and accurately reads the futures of the local Long Street community of Italians and Jews. A dazzling and evocative novel that mixes magical realism with war, love, death, betrayal and the afterlife. D4B. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: South African Author, Fiction, Primo Verona, Magician, Italian Jews 0593051769


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