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O mundo: Uma história através das famílias
Com fatos tão impressionantes quanto a ficção, O mundo captura toda a história humana através daquilo que todos temos em comum: as famílias. Do autor de Os Románov.
Há cerca de 950 mil anos, cinco pessoas caminharam pela praia e deixaram as pegadas familiares mais antigas já descobertas. Para o premiado historiador Simon Sebag Montefiore, esses fósseis servem de inspiração para um novo tipo de história mundial, que abrange todas as eras e todos os continentes e se concentra nos laços familiares que nos unem.
Em O mundo , Montefiore revisita as famílias que marcaram nossa história por meio de intrigas palacianas, casos amorosos e conflitos, tratando de temas como guerra, migração, peste, religião e tecnologia. E apresenta um elenco extraordinário: além de governantes e conquistadores, há padres, charlatões, artistas, cientistas, magnatas, bandidos, amantes, maridos, esposas e filhos. Há Hongwu, o mendigo que fundou a dinastia Ming; Euarê, o Rei Leopardo do Benin; Henri Christophe, rei do Haiti; Kamehameha, o conquistador do Havaí; Zenóbia, a imperatriz árabe que desafiou Roma; a sra. Murasaki, a primeira romancista feminina; Sayyida al-Hurra, a rainha pirata marroquina. Também aparecem figuras mais conhecidas como Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladímir Putin e Volodymyr Zelensky. E, claro, césares, sauditas, incas, zulus e otomanos, Médici, Mughal, Bonaparte, Habsburgo, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Krupp, Churchill, Kennedy, Castro, Nehru, Pahlavi, Kenyatta, Kim, Assad e tantos outros personagens.
Há cerca de 950 mil anos, cinco pessoas caminharam pela praia e deixaram as pegadas familiares mais antigas já descobertas. Para o premiado historiador Simon Sebag Montefiore, esses fósseis servem de inspiração para um novo tipo de história mundial, que abrange todas as eras e todos os continentes e se concentra nos laços familiares que nos unem.
Em O mundo , Montefiore revisita as famílias que marcaram nossa história por meio de intrigas palacianas, casos amorosos e conflitos, tratando de temas como guerra, migração, peste, religião e tecnologia. E apresenta um elenco extraordinário: além de governantes e conquistadores, há padres, charlatões, artistas, cientistas, magnatas, bandidos, amantes, maridos, esposas e filhos. Há Hongwu, o mendigo que fundou a dinastia Ming; Euarê, o Rei Leopardo do Benin; Henri Christophe, rei do Haiti; Kamehameha, o conquistador do Havaí; Zenóbia, a imperatriz árabe que desafiou Roma; a sra. Murasaki, a primeira romancista feminina; Sayyida al-Hurra, a rainha pirata marroquina. Também aparecem figuras mais conhecidas como Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladímir Putin e Volodymyr Zelensky. E, claro, césares, sauditas, incas, zulus e otomanos, Médici, Mughal, Bonaparte, Habsburgo, Rothschild, Rockefeller, Krupp, Churchill, Kennedy, Castro, Nehru, Pahlavi, Kenyatta, Kim, Assad e tantos outros personagens.
1384 pages, Paperback
First published October 27, 2022
About the author
Simon Sebag Montefiore
65 books3,252 followersSimon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the global bestsellers 'The Romanovs' and 'Jerusalem: the Biography,' 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar' and Young Stalin and the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter and "Red Sky at Noon." His books are published in 48 languages and are worldwide bestsellers. He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. He read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD).
'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana.... and Stalin himself.
Buy in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Winter-...
"A thrilling work of fiction. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom." Evening Standard
"Gripping and cleverly plotted. Doomed love at the heart of a violent society is the heart of Montefiore's One Night in Winter... depicting the Kafkaesque labyrinth into which the victims stumble." The Sunday Times
"Compulsively involving. Our fear for the children keeps up turning the pages... We follow the passions with sympathy... The knot of events tugs at a wide range of emotions rarely experienced outside an intimate tyranny." The Times
"The novel is hugely romantic. His ease with the setting and historical characters is masterly. The book maintains a tense pace. Uniquely terrifying. Heartrending. Engrossing. " The Scotsman
“Delicately plotted and buried within a layered, elliptical narrative, One Night in Winter is also a fidgety page-turner which adroitly weaves a huge cast of characters into an arcane world.” Time Out
“A novel full of passion, conspiracy, hope, despair, suffering and redemption, it transcends boundaries of genre, being at once thriller and political drama, horror and romance. His ability to paint Stalin in such a way to make the reader quake with fire is matched by talent for creating truly heartbreaking characters: the children who find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, the parents…. A gripping read and must surely be one of the best novels of 2013. ” NY Journal of Books
"Not just a thumpingly good read, but also essentially a story of human fragility and passions, albeit taking place under the intimidating shadow of a massive Stalinist portico." The National
"Seriously good fun... the Soviet march on Berlin, nightmarish drinking games at Stalin's countryhouse, the magnificence of the Bolshoi, interrogations, snow, sex and exile... lust adultery and romance. Eminently readable and strangely affecting." Sunday Telegraph
" "Hopelessly romantic and hopelessly moving. A mix of lovestory thriller and historical fiction. Engrossing." The Observer
“Gripping. Montefiore’s characters snare our sympathy and we follow them avidly. This intricate at times disturbing, always absorbing novel entertains and disturbs and seethes with moral complexity. Characters real+fictitious ring strikingly true.It is to a large extent Tolstoyan …..” The Australian
“Enthralling. Montefiore writes brilliantly about Love - from teenage romance to the grand passion of adultery. Readers of Sebastian Faulks and Hilary Mantel will lap this up. A historical novel that builds into a nail-biting drama … a world that resembles… Edith Wharton with the death penalty.” Novel of
'The Romanovs' is his latest history book. He has now completed his Moscow Trilogy of novels featuring Benya Golden and Comrade Satinov, Sashenka, Dashka and Fabiana.... and Stalin himself.
Buy in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Winter-...
"A thrilling work of fiction. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom." Evening Standard
"Gripping and cleverly plotted. Doomed love at the heart of a violent society is the heart of Montefiore's One Night in Winter... depicting the Kafkaesque labyrinth into which the victims stumble." The Sunday Times
"Compulsively involving. Our fear for the children keeps up turning the pages... We follow the passions with sympathy... The knot of events tugs at a wide range of emotions rarely experienced outside an intimate tyranny." The Times
"The novel is hugely romantic. His ease with the setting and historical characters is masterly. The book maintains a tense pace. Uniquely terrifying. Heartrending. Engrossing. " The Scotsman
“Delicately plotted and buried within a layered, elliptical narrative, One Night in Winter is also a fidgety page-turner which adroitly weaves a huge cast of characters into an arcane world.” Time Out
“A novel full of passion, conspiracy, hope, despair, suffering and redemption, it transcends boundaries of genre, being at once thriller and political drama, horror and romance. His ability to paint Stalin in such a way to make the reader quake with fire is matched by talent for creating truly heartbreaking characters: the children who find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, the parents…. A gripping read and must surely be one of the best novels of 2013. ” NY Journal of Books
"Not just a thumpingly good read, but also essentially a story of human fragility and passions, albeit taking place under the intimidating shadow of a massive Stalinist portico." The National
"Seriously good fun... the Soviet march on Berlin, nightmarish drinking games at Stalin's countryhouse, the magnificence of the Bolshoi, interrogations, snow, sex and exile... lust adultery and romance. Eminently readable and strangely affecting." Sunday Telegraph
" "Hopelessly romantic and hopelessly moving. A mix of lovestory thriller and historical fiction. Engrossing." The Observer
“Gripping. Montefiore’s characters snare our sympathy and we follow them avidly. This intricate at times disturbing, always absorbing novel entertains and disturbs and seethes with moral complexity. Characters real+fictitious ring strikingly true.It is to a large extent Tolstoyan …..” The Australian
“Enthralling. Montefiore writes brilliantly about Love - from teenage romance to the grand passion of adultery. Readers of Sebastian Faulks and Hilary Mantel will lap this up. A historical novel that builds into a nail-biting drama … a world that resembles… Edith Wharton with the death penalty.” Novel of
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