In this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society. But...
Ein Drama aus Blut und Tränen, Haß und Verrat, Leid und Tod – nur wenig gemildert durch Liebe und Leidenschaft, Hingabe und Treue – nimmt seinen Lauf, als der schwelende Konflikt in der Sklavereifrage sich zum offenen Krieg zwischen den Süd-...
Flucht in die Liebe, Flucht vor der Liebe — vor sich selbst, dem andern, dem Leben, der Geschichte. Sieben erotische, subtile, tragikomische Geschichten uber Sehnsuchte und Verwirrungen, Nahe und Einsamkeit, Verstrickung und Schuld, Lebensentwurfe...
Dear Carolina was praised as "Southern fiction at its best."* Now author Kristy Woodson Harvey presents a new novel about what it really means to tell the truth . . .
After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn "Lovey" White knows that...
From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to talk about Adolf Hitler in today's world.
Elinor's comfortable life — popular newspaper column,...
One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has...
One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has...
One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has...
The sequel Life after a Balla begins with Skye doing whatever it takes to obtain the riches she whole heartedly thinks she deserves. Between lavish gifts and million-dollar promises she tries hard to forget her past turmoil with Sandingo, her...
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night,...