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Title: Love is Blind
Author: BOYD WILLIAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2018
Imprint: VIKING
Price: $29.99
Publishing status: Active
Few writers working today are as reliably
excellent as Scottish author William Boyd.
His 2002 novel Any Human Heart is his
most admired work, but even his thrillers
(Waiting for Sunrise, Solo) are widely
lauded. Boyd’s latest work, Love is Blind, is
notable for its finely wrought characters and
wonderful evocations of place – the action,
which centres around Scottish piano-tuner
Brodie Moncur and Lika, a Russian opera
singer, involves a diverse cast of characters
and travels from Scotland to Paris, Nice,
St Petersburg, Trieste, Biarritz and the
Andaman Islands. Brodie’s love for Lika
traps him in ‘a maddening cycle of strange
unhappiness’ that is matched by ill health,
as he battles tuberculosis. This is a skilled
and highly refined novel, full of compassion
and insights into the human condition.
You don’t see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light’
Love is Blind is William Boyd’s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel – set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future – and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie’s love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the 19th century becomes the 20th.
Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man’s life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the 20th century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain’s best loved storytellers.
ISBN: 9780241295946
Pages: 296