Word: ella
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...Virgin Blue,” Chevalier’s under-recognized literary debut—published in Britain in 1997 but not released in this country until 2003—tells the dual narratives of 16th-century Isabelle Tournier and her modern-day descendant, Boston-bred Ella Turner, two women who are linked by a haunting family secret...
...modern-day narrative, Ella has followed her husband Rick to Toulouse, France where he has been relocated by his architectural firm...
Feeling neglected by Rick, Ella is troubled by a recurrent nightmare. “There’s a voice—no, two voices, one speaking in French, the other crying, really hysterical crying. All of this is in a fog, like the air is very heavy, like water. And there’s a thud at the end, like a door being shut. And most of all there’s the colour blue everywhere,” she describes...
...Ella details the genealogical research by which she hopes to uncover the hidden meaning of her dream, her narrative comes to mimetically parallel that of Isabelle...
...Savelyev's findings confirm, Ella Kesayeva, Chair of the Voice of Beslan Public Committee, told TIME in a phone interview Wednesday morning, "that the authorities are as guilty in murdering our children as the terrorists," because the Kremlin-ordered assault also abruptly killed the negotiating process that could realistically get the hostages released. "Putin had our children butchered, and used the massacre to build his one-person rule of this country...