Sofie & Cecilia
A surprising, rich and beautiful novel about women's friendship, from bestselling author Katherine Ashenburg.
In Sofie & Cecilia, beloved non-fiction author and journalist Katherine Ashenburg draws upon her formidable skill and maturity as a writer to craft an extraordinary and splendid debut novel. This is the story of a lifelong female friendship, set in the fascinating art world of Sweden between 1900 and 1940, just as modern art and the beginnings of the Scandinavian mid-century modern design movement were inspiring a creative revolution across northern Europe. Loosely based on the lives of celebrated artists Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn ("Nils Olsson" and "Lars Vogt" in the novel), Ashenburg transports us behind both the public and domestic scenes--and canvasses--of these larger-than-life men…
$22.00
February 5, 2019
Katherine Ashenburg has worked as an academic, a CBC Radio producer and the Arts and Books editor of the Globe and Mail. She has written about travel for the New York Times and architecture for Toronto Life magazine. Her books include Going to Town: Architectural Walking Tours of Southern Ontario Towns, The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, and the novel Sofie & Cecilia. Her second novel, Her Turn, will be published in the summer of 2021. She lives in Toronto.
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