Recenzie The perfume garden

Kate Lord Brown                                                                          
Paperback
Aparuta in 2012
Publicata in Great Britain by Corvus Books
Carte oferita de autoare






Rezumat oficial:
The Perfume Garden combines the gripping storytelling of Kate Morton with the evocative settings of Victoria Hislop to tell this sumptuous story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories. As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: one of crushed idealism, lost love, and families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing letting go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you.

Opinie personala

Cartea vorbeste despre sacrificiul facut de victimele razboiului civil din Spania. Este o poveste cu adevarat emotionanta. Arata cum femeile erau nevoite sa renunte la iubitul lor pentru a-l lasa sa  se duca  sa lupte pentru tara, sau pentru a fugi ele impreuna cu, copii lor in alta tara. Ce m-a emotionat cu adevarat a fost conditia femeilor fata de socitetate si fata de soti lor, care le bateau si profitau de ele. Rosa , bunica Emmei  a fost nevoita sa nasca in strada, deoarece, daca ar fi fugit, risca sa o loveasca o bomba. Emma Temple se muta in anul 2001, alaturi de copilul ei nenascut in casa Rosei, unde vrea sa isi deschida un magazin de parfumuri, dar cu cat se imprieteneste mai mult cu vecinii, descopera adevarul despre casa si familia ei. Emma nu este lipsita de problemele vietii, dar reuseste sa le depaseasca datorita unor scrisori de la mama ei  ( pe care eu le ador) in care  o sfatuieste si o ajuta.

Povestea este foarte frumoasa si cartea merita citita pentru ca e superba si ca aspect, dar si ca actiune).

Citate:

''People need things like perfume and poetry, music and art, more than ever during times like this. People need to remember the simple joys in life. If you forget, if life loses its colour then they have won. Those cowordly, heartless bastards have won.''

''Sometimes life and love is much aboutt deciding who to let go as who to take with you on this journey.''

Autor

Kate grew up in the wild and beautiful Devon countryside.  After studying at Durham University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she worked as an international art consultant.  While curating collections for palaces and embassies in Europe and the Middle East, she dreamt of writing full time. 

When the family left London to travel the world and move to the orange groves of Valencia, Kate had the chance to write her first novel. 

She now lives in the Middle East with her family, and writes a daily column for writers juggling their work with family life.  Kate has written for publications including Conde Nast Traveller, Blueprint and Arts Business Today, and is currently  working on her new novel.