ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1983
Jezik: Hrvatski
Autor: Strani

HOWARD FAST

DOSELJENICI 1-2

Prevod - Blanka Pečnik-Kroflin

Izdavač - Znanje, Zagreb

Godina - 1983

328 + 258 strana

20 cm

Edicija - Hit - Biblioteka moderne literature

Povez - Tvrd

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja


`Born on the voyage to America to his French father and Italian mother, Daniel Lavette grows up helping his father on a fishing boat. Tragedy strikes early one morning, however, when Dan wakes early to prepare the boat. The great San Francisco earthquake destroys vast swathes of the city including the small apartment where his parents were sleeping. Following a traumatic three days spent ferrying passengers across the bay to Oakland, he is taken in by friends of his father. The two immigrant families of Italian and Jewish origin use the money earned from the ferrying to start a financial empire and a bank, the Bank of Sonoma.

Although Dan becomes quite rich, he does not stop. He wants to become a multimillionaire and has many ideas in mind. He is an entrepreneur and seeks to find his place among the rich businessmen on Nob Hill. He asks for a loan from the larger Seldon Bank in San Francisco, but the owner declines. During that meeting, Dan meets Jean, the exquisitely beautiful daughter of the owner, and both are smitten with each other. Soon after, they marry, against the will of Jean`s mother, who looks down on immigrants and those of poor pedigree.

Dan grows increasingly wealthy, but his happiness is short-lived. After they have two children, Jean ceases to love him and grows cold to his advances. Dan hires a Chinese bookkeeper, Feng Wo, to assist him at the start of his business dealings, but only receives an invitation for dinner at Wo`s house after several years. Because Jean shares her mother`s distaste for other ethnicities, Dan attends alone. At the dinner, Dan enjoys the company of Wo`s daughter, May Ling, laughing and feeling more at ease than he had since his first days with Jean. After visiting her a few times at the library where she works, Dan falls in love with May Ling. They engage in an affair and they have a child together. So that she may have all of his energies to herself, May Ling wants him to divorce Jean. Dan broaches the idea to Jean, but is flatly declined as divorce is not something the Seldon family participates in. Even after she discovers the affair and has romantic meetings of her own, she will not divorce him and holds onto the marriage as a ploy for leverage.`


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