By Benjamin Wood
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Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the city property the place he used to be raised and made a brand new lifestyles for himself amid the universities and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to like the quiet regimen of his lifestyles as a care assistant at an area nursing domestic, the place he has solid an in depth friendship with the home's such a lot ill-tempered resident, Dr. Paulsen. but if he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a stunning and enigmatic clinical scholar at King's collage, Oscar is drawn into her global of scholarship and privilege, and shortly turns into embroiled within the unusual machinations of her fabulous yet bothered brother, Eden, who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal individuals with song. Eden's self-belief is aware no bounds, and as he attracts his sister and closed circle of acquaintances right into a sequence of irritating experiments to turn out himself correct, Oscar realises the level of the chance dealing with them all...
About the Author
Benjamin wooden was once born in 1981 and grew up in north-west England. In 2004, he was once presented a Commonwealth Scholarship to wait the MFA artistic Writing Programme on the collage of British Columbia, Canada, the place he used to be additionally fiction editor of the Canadian literary magazine PRISM overseas. Benjamin is now a lecturer in artistic Writing at Birkbeck, collage of London. The Bellwether Revivals is his first novel.
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Parecia inquieto; em algum momento pareceu exasperado. Abriu a sacola de couro, apalpou-a por dentro, até a mão direita trêmula encontrar um cartão-postal. No rosto sério os lábios sumiram de sua boca, quem sabe um cacoete ou o gesto ansioso. Por favor, me acompanhe até essa casa, ele pediu, apontando a fotografia do cartão-postal. O tom da voz era quase de súplica; chegou a ser patético ao repetir o pedido em francês, e só não o fez em alemão porque dispensei mais salamaleques. Eu conhecia de vista a casa ilhada: u m bangalô atraente 70 e misterioso, que só parecia dar sinal de vida depois do anoitecer, quando as luzes iluminavam a fachada e o jardim.
Ela apareceu ao anoitecer. Notou o jeito esquivo dos convidados e perguntou logo de cara: Vocês ainda estão falando de política? Tirou os sapatos, mal cumprimentou Francine e Laure, disse: Ça vai a Gerardo, Gabriela e Jérôme, foi menos fria com Fabiana e Marcelo, beijando-lhes o rosto e perguntando a todos: Pelo menos me esperaram pra cantar parabéns? Lázaro apontou para Jean-Paul, sozinho e de pernas abertas no canto da sala, o rosto com ar entorpecido e blasé. Mas Bárbara o ignorou. Só ela estava de pé, observando a bagunça de copos, garrafas, pratos e talheres, então Fabiana disse que só estavam esperando por Bárbara para cantar parabéns e pediu a Marcelo que acendesse as velas do bolo.
Soube que deixara a Bretanha havia muitos anos; seu desejo era partir em busca do desconhecido. Para ele, viajar era uma forma de viver em tempos distintos. Um dia lhe perguntei se conhecia o dialeto bretão ou uma das tantas línguas indígenas do Amazonas. Vi seu rosto branco ruborizar: um rosto sem rugas, imberbe, os olhos azulados pareciam expressar dúvida ou indagação; de repente se levantou, foi até a varanda e, de costas para o rio, disse: Emilie me confundiu com Armand Verne. Ele, sim, é u m linguista aplicado e tutor dos nativos.