Three Women in a Mirror by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

After much sadness she will find a method for uncovering the roots of her malaise in a new cure developed by a Viennese doctor by the name of Sigmund Freud. She is a young noblewoman, dissatisfied with bourgeois conventions, who undertakes a journey of self-discovery. Hanna lives in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century. Her serenity and the loose tongues of those who secretly envy her, result in her being branded a heretic, with tragic consequences.

It is the age of the counterreformation and the Inquisition. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. She's a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Anne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect-a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Both her curse and her solace, acting will give her the key to a open a new chapter in her life where she will find love, companionship, and the meaning she has been searching for. Addicted to celebrity and to variety of illicit substances she is searching for meaning in world where the only apparent thing of any value is money.

She’s a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect-a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations.Īnne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century.

Three Women in a Mirror by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt