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Bezig met laden... The Empress of the Last Daysdoor Jane Stevenson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Excellent fun! Now we see the story of Balthazar etc. indirectly, through the eyes of 21st Century academics! I can't say that all the dangling bits from the Shadow King were tied up, but we zoom out here enough not too care. The details bubble up in some scrambled order as our researchers puzzle them out. The modern day action is all believable enough and fits together well. Maybe the big message is that our struggles today, our political narratives, are similar enough to those 300 years ago. ( ) This was quite different than the other books in this trilogy. Here (a la A. S. Byatt's Possession) a team of scholars find a set of documents that allow them to uncover the story Stevenson told in the first two volumes. It would stand on its own, but it's fun to watch the principal characters pursue false leads, etc. And here the theme about race & status (and, to a lesser extent, gender) is more pronounced, more overtly discussed, than in the earlier volumes. I really enjoyed this set of books, but because it is so heady, it's difficult to recommend to most of my reading friends. Oh, yeah, the other thing that impressed me about this last volume is that, as the first one took seriously religious views & language that are mostly lost, & the second got inside the clash of scientific & practical approaches to medicine, this one conveys clearly, insightfully, &, to some extent, sympathetically, contemporary academic politics, with its benefits & costs to intellectual life--a theme usually treated only in satires . . . and a theme, again, not calculated to appeal to the masses. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The triumphant conclusion to Stevenson's trilogy of historical novels. The Empress of the Last Days is the final volume of the remarkable trilogy that began with Astraea and The Pretender. Whereas the events of those novels occurred in the seventeenth century, those of this novel take place now, in the twenty-first. A series of documents come to light in Middelburg and London. They touch upon the events described in Astraea and The Pretender. A group of friends, Corinne, Theodoor and Michael, bring together their talents and knowledge to uncover the hidden story of Pelagius's royal marriage. The lives which readers of the first two books have known as lived experience have been reduced to information, guesses based on dusty scraps of paper. As a result of their investigations, Michael finds himself journeying to Barbados to meet the last descendant of the marriage of Pelagius and Elizabeth of Bohemia - a young black scientist who, unknown to herself, has a serious claim to be considered the rightful queen of England. This meeting, and the discoveries which result from it, changes both their lives, and forces them to re-examine their assumptions and the terms on which they live. The Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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