1920-e gody. Devyatnadcatiletnyaya anglichanka Gven vyhodit zamuzh za Lourensa, obayatel'nogo vladel'ca ogromnoj chajnoj plantacii na Cejlone. Gven priezzhaet k muzhu, polnaya nadezhd i planov na budushchee. No zhizn' na Cejlone, vopreki ozhidaniyam, okazyvaetsya ne stol' raduzhnoj. Nedovol'stvo rabochih. Zlopyhatel'stvo sosedej. Kozni nevestki. No samoe glavnoe — pokrytaya mrakom istoriya smerti pervoj zheny Lourensa. Pochemu vse tak staratel'no skryvayut obstoyatel'stva ee gibeli? Kto pohoronen v bezymyannoj mogile v lesu? Stolknuvshis' s tajnami proshlogo svoego muzha, Gven okazyvaetsya pered trudnym vyborom... Zapominayushchijsya, nezhnyj portret zhenshchiny, vynuzhdennoj vybirat' mezhdu supruzheskim dolgom i materinskim instinktom... Vpervye na russkom yazyke!
1920-e gody. Devyatnadcatiletnyaya anglichanka Gven vyhodit zamuzh za Lourensa, obayatel'nogo vladel'ca ogromnoj chajnoj plantacii na Cejlone. Gven priezzhaet k muzhu, polnaya nadezhd i planov na budushchee. No zhizn' na Cejlone, vopreki ozhidaniyam, okazyvaetsya ne stol' raduzhnoj. Nedovol'stvo rabochih. Zlopyhatel'stvo sosedej. Kozni nevestki. No samoe glavnoe — pokrytaya mrakom istoriya smerti pervoj zheny Lourensa. Pochemu vse tak staratel'no skryvayut obstoyatel'stva ee gibeli? Kto pohoronen v bezymyannoj mogile v lesu? Stolknuvshis' s tajnami proshlogo svoego muzha, Gven okazyvaetsya pered trudnym vyborom... Zapominayushchijsya, nezhnyj portret zhenshchiny, vynuzhdennoj vybirat' mezhdu supruzheskim dolgom i materinskim instinktom... Vpervye na russkom yazyke!
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