by Patrick Leigh Fermor · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483103265
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In 'The Violins of Saint-Jacques', Patrick Leigh Fermor transports us to an exotic Caribbean island through the story of Berthe de Rennes, a French lady who shares her memories with an English traveler. The novel, set between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, narrates a dramatic and romantic intrigue amidst lush plantations and the omnipresence of a volcano. On a carnival night, as the island celebrates, a volcanic eruption will change everyone's destiny.
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
