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The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver—possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."—Phoebe Lou Adams, The AtlanticPatrick Leigh Fermor's only novel displays the same lustrous way with words as his beloved travel trilogy (A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road), the memoir of his youthful walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This slim book starts with themeeting of an English traveler and an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman on an Aegean island. He is captivated by her painting of a busy Caribbean port in the shadow of a volcano, which leads her to tell him the story of her childhood in that town back at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tale she unfolds, set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint-Jacques, is one of romantic...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (160 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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