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“Ours
was a world of eternal spring, until the summer
came." |
| About Hope and
Despair: A feast of sensuality, Payne’s
third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful
young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two
come of age in a springtime garden. When their world
of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the
two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery
world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric
lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day,
light is shed on everyone’s fate as the greatest
adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off
on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through
tears of hope and despair, the landscape of this novel
unfolds before us in a vast panorama of poetic prose,
delighting the senses and the imagination about what
is possible, what is beautiful, and what is maddening
about this world. |
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"Charged
with passion, these pages sing to us their erotic
melancholy; 'Hope and Despair' is both loving and
frightening, a pleasure to read once and again!"
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