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Monday, June 8, 2020

The Light In Trieste By Rosemary Aubert



Three women separated by a century yet bound to Trieste by hope, betrayal, and a single piece of glass with an exalted provenance.



The Empress Elizabeth of Austria – Sisi as she was known to her intimates – was a woman of legendary loveliness, impressive intelligence, and iron determination. Too young pushed into a loveless marriage, chosen as simply another beautiful object for her new husband’s collection, she’s worked tirelessly for the empire and scraped as much independence as she can from the stultifying life of the Imperial Court. Now she’s had enough. Wielding only her beauty and the perfect prism, can she engineer an enduring alternative life for herself?



After five decades of turmoil in Europe – including two world wars and the eradication of the Austrian Empire – the prism resurfaces in the hands of a skilled young mathematician. Marijana is on loan from Yugoslavia to an American-led scientific construction in Trieste, and through her attempts to escape her Communist future we learn more of the prism’s history.  Five decades later Ravenna, another math-minded woman who came of age in the chaos of post-Soviet Europe, tracks down Marijana, bringing the prism and its storied provenance back to the light.

Covering this wide span of geopolitical history, it's inevitable that some subjects will not receive as much attention as some readers might wish. The book is an invitation to explore as much as an intriguing tale.
 

Woven through this saga of strong women fighting Fate is a love song to the perfect order of mathematics and the intricate machinery of scientific discovery since the European Renaissance.





ISBN-10: 1772421146

ISBN-13: 978-1772421149

 Born in Niagara Falls, New York, Rosemary has long made her home in Toronto, where she has worked as a university instructor, an editor and a bookstore clerk and of course-a writer.





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