Con Brio

Name: Con Brio
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ISBN: 9780099449829

Brina Svit

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English

Vintage
01 September 2003

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'Con Brio consumes us like a bout of fever... Disconcerting and brilliant. Give it to your best friend' - Elle

In a brasserie off the Boulevard St-Germain, a renowned novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman's hands folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat.

This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for this story of love and jealousy. The novelist's orderly life vanishes the instant he admires this strange woman's hands; the discipline of forty fruitful years dissolves.

On an impulse, he proposes. She answers without hesitation - yes, she will marry him, but only on her terms. She will occupy his house, but not his bed. When she moves in, Kati upends her new husband's meticulous domestic arrangements, then his sanity. Her stubborn detachment transforms the writer from a cool, amused observer of life into a creature ravaged by doubt, passion and jealousy.

With a brutality counterpointed by the elegance and subtlety of Savit's prose, this story dramatises the ruinous consequences of sexual obsession.

By: Brina Svit
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 125g
ISBN: 9780099449829
ISBN 10: 009944982X
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 September 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brina Svit was born in Slovenia in 1959, and divides her time between Paris and Slovenia. She works as a journalist, screenwriter and director, and has also written novels, among them Con Brio and Death of a Prima Donna have been translated into Engish.