Ebook {Epub PDF} The Lovers by Vendela Vida

The Lovers [Vendela Vida] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Lovers.  · The Lovers seems a deliberately misleading title for Vendela Vida's slim, reflective third novel: a year-old American woman named Yvonne, whose husband was Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Vendela Vida's latest novel 'The Lovers' is an unusual and involving examination of marriage and of parenthood and its attendant joys, disappointments and heartaches. The story begins with Yvonne who arrives alone at Datca, in Turkey, a beautiful coastal village where she and her husband, Peter, spent their honeymoon twenty-eight years before/5(60).

"Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman's voyage to self-discovery."—Joyce Carol Oates "Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height. Book Review: Vida's 'The Lovers' The Lovers, a novel from Vendela Vida, tells the story of the romantic adventures of a widowed American traveling in Turkey. The Lovers: A Novel. By Vendela Vida. Hardcover, pages. Ecco. List price: $ When half an hour had passed and there was still no sign of a white Renault, Yvonne began to fear she'd been.

Early in “The Lovers,” Yvonne, a middle-aged American vacationing in Turkey, finds a book on the shelf of her rental house called “The Woman’s Guide to Anal Sex.”. She flips through it. Though it briefly seems that the novel might take a more sensual turn (the book appears to take its title from Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, Yvonne’s beach reading), the story soon becomes more complicated. The brief friendships Yvonne strikes up with shop owners, fellow tourists and a young boy on the beach all question how useful it is to try and shed our concerns by pursuing a change of scenery, and Vida’s clear, simple prose exposes how Yvonne’s feelings of loss emerge despite her. The Lovers seems a deliberately misleading title for Vendela Vida's slim, reflective third novel: a year-old American woman named Yvonne, whose husband was killed in a car accident two years.