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  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128655
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 28

Evangelista's Fan (Storycuts)



A historical tale set in the 19th century about the real impact of time and identity.

Salvatore, a young watchmaker from Italy, moves to London when the king of his hometown decrees that a period of twenty-six years is to be erased from history, never to be mentioned in public again. Since this constitutes the whole of period of his life Salvatore feels he has no choice but to flee. But in London, what challenges will this man face, who holds so deeply to the importance of time and identity?

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Evangelista's Fan.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128655
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 28

About the author

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

www.rosetremain.co.uk

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