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The Mapmaker’s Opera电子书

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作       者:Bea Gonzalez

出  版  社:HarperCollins Publishers

出版时间:2016-08-31

字       数:42.4万

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In the tradition of Allende, this is a magical novel, written in the form of an opera, and set in Seville and Mexico in the late 1800s. Act I opens in Seville. Emilio has been forced by his overbearing mother into the priesthood. Monica is a governess in a wealthy household who falls pregnant by the head of the house. A chance meeting in Seville cathedral suggests a solution to both their predicaments – they decide to marry, though it is not a love match. Emilio raises Monica's son Diego as his own, and they form a close bond over their mutual love of language, books, maps and birds. When Emilio dies, Monica reveals that he was not Diego's father. She grows ever more embittered and eventually dies, leaving Diego to pursue his true calling – his love of birds. Act 2 follows Diego's life in Mexico – his apprenticeship to an American who is mapping the birds of Mexico; his love for Sofia, the beautiful, independent daughter of a Mexican farmer; and his obsession with saving the Passenger Pigeon from extinction. The cities of Seville and Mérida are so central to the narrative, and evoked so beautifully, that they are almost characters themselves. Taking in many of the stock characters that appear in the best operas – the philanderer, the wronged wife, the harassed servant, the star-crossed lovers – The Mapmaker's Opera is an original and magical novel which will appeal to lovers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende.
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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Seguiriya

Dramatis Personae

Contents

Act One

Overture

Scene One: As we walk on sacred ground

Scene Two: We listen to the woes of Doña Fernanda

Scene Three: On a stone bench, a seguiriya

Scene Four: Inside a bookstore on the Calle San Vicente

Scene Five: Sorry her lot

Scene Six: The house on the other side of the world

Act Two

Scene One: In a Mérida square

Scene Two: Two birds

Scene Three: In a Mérida bookstore

Scene Four: A hacienda on the outskirts of bliss itself

Act Three

Scene One: Inside the oldest cathedral of the New World

Scene Two: At the Virgen de Guadalupe Ball

Scene Three: Ah! je vais l’aimer

Scene Four: A song with wings

Scene Five: Two birds in hand

The Curtain Call

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher

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