The sleeping Madonna
Rey, Ruth Deborah

ISBN 9789049400774
Uitgever A.J.G. Strengholt's Boeken Anno 1928
Taal Engels
Categorie romans,fictie
Meer info 2011, paperback, good copy
Extra informatie While visiting a tiny chapel in Portugal's beautiful Douro Region, newly divorced, stage and cinema actress Roxane Fontaine catches a glimpse of what looks like a sleeping Madonna statue, but turns out to be a very dead old lady. Touched by the woman's serene beauty, and overcome by an odd feeling of kinship, Roxane quietly talks to her in Portuguese. The dead woman's mourning relatives witness the scene and are convinced that she is their long-lost cousin Ana Rosa de Fontes Fonsequa, who vanished twenty-one years ago and - for them - reappeared shortly after in the US as Roxane Fontaine, a young film star. They welcome her back with open arms and abundant love. She meets the dead old lady's sisters, her regally beautiful granddaughter, Celeste and her aristocratic, yet earthy husband, Rui Cabral, whose eyes make love to Roxane. Celeste watches this with joy, because it announces the rebirth of an extraordinary concordat: the triangle of love of Ana Rosa, Celeste and Rui. Roxane is overwhelmed by their love and even more so by her desire for Rui, and feels she is slipping into Ana Rosa's skin. Should she get out? Run? Maybe she should, but when the next day, the family's old notary tells her the truth about the real Ana Rosa, Roxane accept the papers that will officially allow her to walk out of his office as Ana Rosa de Fontes Foncequa. Stage name: Roxane Fontaine. It's the beginning, or rather the continuation of a life in which Rui and she are kindred spirits and passionate lovers, while Celeste is his beloved wife and Ana Rosa's soul-sister. Theirs is a ménage à trois in which they share nearly everything life has to offer, a relationship that is accepted by all who work for and with them at their two Quintas (wine estates), theirs is an unadulterated Triangle of Love. With Portugal's beautiful Douro region, the cradle of the famous Port wine, as its backdrop, this extremely sensual and romantic, dynasty-style novel, spans four generations and the exeptional concordat of love will carry you along through endless days of passion, joy and tears, in poignant scenes that pulsate with life. The reality of the three lovers who see only beauty, even in aging, combines with magnificent vineyard, the vindimas and corta (the harvesting and treading of the grapes), and Lusitano horses. It allows you to meet courageous people who triumph over life and acknowledge death's ultimate conclusion with dignity.

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