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Fru Ines

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Product Code: 9781909408050
ISBN13: 9781909408050
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Fru Ines

$21.13
 
Fru In?s is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Constantinople. The city is a hub, a meeting point of East and West, where privileged Europeans enjoy a cossetted existence screened from the tumult and misery of the streets. One of the privileged is In?s, a Spanish Levantine from Alexandria, whose marriage to a Swedish consul has brought her a life of enviable luxury; but behind the polished fa?ade she is lonely and unfulfilled, trapped in a loveless marriage. Her yearning for passion leads her to embark on an affair with a na?ve young Swede, Arthur Flemming; but their love is threatened from the start by portents of disaster and the threat of discovery, and In?s is inexorably drawn to seek rescue from the sordid dealers from whom she had been so careful to keep aloof. Amalie Skram was a contemporary of Henrik Ibsen, and like him a fierce critic of repressive social mores and hypocrisy. Many of her works make an impassioned statement on the way women of all classes are imprisoned in their social roles, contributing to the great debate about sexual morality which engaged many Nordic writers in the late nineteenth century. Her female characters are independent, rebellious, even reckless; but their upbringing and their circumstances combine to deny them the fulfilment their creator so painfully won for herself.


Author: Amalie Skram
Publisher: Norvik Press
Publication Date: Mar 15, 2014
Number of Pages: 170 pages
Binding: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10: 1909408050
ISBN-13: 9781909408050
 

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