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Beschreibung
Set in a city of merchants and workers, sailors and kings, the privileged and the poor, The Filigree Master's Apprentice is a story of resilience, friendship, and a young man's search for his place in a changing world.

Portugal, October 1877: When 17-year-old Henrique is offered a job in Porto, he seizes the opportunity to escape his harsh life among the vineyards of a Port wine estate. Behind him is a searing betrayal he cannot forget. Ahead is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work in the elegant shop of a goldsmith in a city preparing to inaugurate Gustave Eiffel's magnificent iron bridge over the Douro River.

In Porto, the welcome he receives is far from friendly. As Henrique navigates its sinuous streets, rubs shoulders with mapmakers and rabble-rousers, and struggles to master the delicate art of filigree, he learns that skill alone may not be enough to secure his future.

When someone from his past resurfaces, reviving old accusations of thievery, Henrique must confront the very history he hoped to escape - or risk losing everything he's worked so hard to build.
Set in a city of merchants and workers, sailors and kings, the privileged and the poor, The Filigree Master's Apprentice is a story of resilience, friendship, and a young man's search for his place in a changing world.

Portugal, October 1877: When 17-year-old Henrique is offered a job in Porto, he seizes the opportunity to escape his harsh life among the vineyards of a Port wine estate. Behind him is a searing betrayal he cannot forget. Ahead is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work in the elegant shop of a goldsmith in a city preparing to inaugurate Gustave Eiffel's magnificent iron bridge over the Douro River.

In Porto, the welcome he receives is far from friendly. As Henrique navigates its sinuous streets, rubs shoulders with mapmakers and rabble-rousers, and struggles to master the delicate art of filigree, he learns that skill alone may not be enough to secure his future.

When someone from his past resurfaces, reviving old accusations of thievery, Henrique must confront the very history he hoped to escape - or risk losing everything he's worked so hard to build.
Über den Autor
Jeannine Johnson Maia is the author of two historical novels that take place in Portugal: 'The Filigree Master's Apprentice,' a story of 19th-century Porto, and 'Rossio Square N.° 59,' a novel of WWII Lisbon. Before moving to Portugal, Jeannine worked as a journalist in Belgium and Washington, D.C.; served as a press specialist at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels; studied in the United States and Italy; taught English in France; and lived in Cape Verde. She has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in Creative Writing. She lives in Vila Nova de Gaia, near Porto, a city she finds irresistibly photogenic.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9789893527504
ISBN-10: 9893527503
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Johnson Maia, Jeannine
Hersteller: Jeannine Johnson Maia
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Jeannine Johnson Maia
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
Artikel-ID: 127780881