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In a tiny village in Finland, Esko Vaananen is at the brink of despair -- he loves a woman he can never have. Suddenly, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above him. This pilvenpiirtaja -- "cloud sketcher" or skyscraper -- sparks a lifelong quest for beauty in Esko. He will pursue and protect these two passions -- his vision and his love -- no matter how great the cost, for the rest of his life. It is a journey that leads him into the Bolshevik revolution and the Jazz Age nightclubs of New York City and to strike a Faustian bargain with a ruthless gangster -- all in the pursuit of artistic perfection and impossible, unattainable love.
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The Cloud Sketcher, Richard Piers Rayner
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- Année de publication
- 2001
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- Titre
- The Cloud Sketcher
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Richard Piers Rayner
- Éditeur
- HarperCollins
- Publié
- 2001
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN10
- 0007128320
- ISBN13
- 9780007128327
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Romans historiques, Polars, Architecture, Amour, États-Unis, New York, Polars nordiques, Révolution, Finlande, Bolchevisme, Gratte-ciels
- Première publication
- 2002
- Titre original
- The cloud sketcher
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- In a tiny village in Finland, Esko Vaananen is at the brink of despair -- he loves a woman he can never have. Suddenly, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above him. This pilvenpiirtaja -- "cloud sketcher" or skyscraper -- sparks a lifelong quest for beauty in Esko. He will pursue and protect these two passions -- his vision and his love -- no matter how great the cost, for the rest of his life. It is a journey that leads him into the Bolshevik revolution and the Jazz Age nightclubs of New York City and to strike a Faustian bargain with a ruthless gangster -- all in the pursuit of artistic perfection and impossible, unattainable love.