The Morningside A Novel Ta Obreht by Téa Obreht 9781984855510, 1984855514 instant download after payment.

There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one you can’t. Welcome to the Morningside.

After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia & her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place called Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family’s past, & because the once-vibrant city where she lives is now half-underwater. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born & spent her early years, nor does she fully understand why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia’s lonely & impoverished reality.

Enchanted by Ena’s stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities & becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building: She has her own elevator entrance & leaves only to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia’s mission to unravel the truth about this woman’s life, & her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything.

Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell—and the stories we refuse to tell—to make sense of where we came from & who we hope we might become.

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Téa Obreht’s debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.