Blackberry wine - Joanne Harris (en inglés)
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De la misma autora de "Como agua para el chocolate. Edición de bolsillo. Muy buen estado.
The plot of this novel revolves around Jay, a rather disillusioned writer who completed one brilliant book, years previously, and a great deal of junk fiction. He's married to the ultra-smart and supercilious Kerry, but one day, on impulse, decides to buy an old farm in France - and then moves there, out of the blue. Most of the novel revolves around his re-finding his writing muse, getting the farm into some kind of shape, and getting to know the neighbours.
But that's only the current (1999) side of the book. Interwoven between the modern plot are Jay's memories of 1975, when he was a rather fed-up teenager who befriended an elderly eccentric called Joe. Joe taught Jay all he knows about plants and herbs, and also about preserving and wine-making. Wine is an important motif in the book - so much so that its narrator (in places) is, rather bizarrely, a bottle of wine. Surprisingly this works well; the bottle-as-narrator is not intrusive, and most of the book is told from the third-person viewpoint of Jay.
The plot of this novel revolves around Jay, a rather disillusioned writer who completed one brilliant book, years previously, and a great deal of junk fiction. He's married to the ultra-smart and supercilious Kerry, but one day, on impulse, decides to buy an old farm in France - and then moves there, out of the blue. Most of the novel revolves around his re-finding his writing muse, getting the farm into some kind of shape, and getting to know the neighbours.
But that's only the current (1999) side of the book. Interwoven between the modern plot are Jay's memories of 1975, when he was a rather fed-up teenager who befriended an elderly eccentric called Joe. Joe taught Jay all he knows about plants and herbs, and also about preserving and wine-making. Wine is an important motif in the book - so much so that its narrator (in places) is, rather bizarrely, a bottle of wine. Surprisingly this works well; the bottle-as-narrator is not intrusive, and most of the book is told from the third-person viewpoint of Jay.
