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The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
"Surviving Death" (1939) is a romantic-psychological novel by Czech writer, actress, and playwright Olga Scheinpflugová, completed shortly before the death of her husband, Karel Čapek, in 1938.
The novel tells the unusual love story of an English priest and an Australian heiress in the 19th century. Bound by a passion for gambling and faith, they embark on a crazy bet together – transporting a glass church through the Australian outback.
Typical of Ward and Keeland: emotional, entertaining, with an unavoidable single father, smoldering romances, humor, steamy scenes, and a happy ending. A book about opposites complementing each other and the power of love to heal wounds.
In the first book of the novel, we meet Dorothea Brooke, a 19-year-old girl who wants a great life dedicated to good. She marries the old scholar Casaubon, thinking that he will help her in her intellectual work, but the marriage brings disappointment.
Marcello Clerici, obsessed with normality after a traumatic childhood and a homosexual attack, becomes a fascist bureaucrat. He marries the average Giulia, and on their "honeymoon" in Paris, he is assigned to kill a former professor, anti-fascist Quadri.