For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the evenings she teaches a peasant girl, Charu, to write so she can correspond with her lover in secret. As Maya finds out, however, no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, or her own past. The communi ...
Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Anita Desai ruminates on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and its realities in three perfectly etched novellas. Set in India in the not-too-distant past, the dramas illuminate the ways in which Indian culture can nourish or suffocate. All are served up with Desai's characteristic perspicuity, subtle humor, and sensitive writing. Ov ...
Nina is a harried young mother who spends her evenings spying on the older couple across the street through her son's binoculars. She is drawn to their quiet contentment – so unlike her own lonely, chaotic world of nursing. One night, she spies a young couple in the throes of passion. Who are these people, and what happened to her symbol of domestic bliss? In the coming weeks, Nina encounters the older couple, Leon and Claudia, their daught ...
Britt and Leo have spent ten years running Winesap, the best restaurant in their small Pennsylvania town. They cater to their loyal customers; they don't sleep with the staff; and business is good, even if their temperamental pastry chef is bored with making the same chocolate cake night after night. But when their younger brother, Harry, opens his own restaurant – a hip little joint serving an aggressive lamb neck dish – Britt and Leo find ...
In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it's an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn't care less about soccer. His twin brother Luca, a rising soccer star, died tragically in a motorcycle accident, and their mother, unable to cope with her grief, drowned herself on the anniversary of Luca's death. But then Yuri Fil, a Ukrainian soccer star, takes refuge from the paparazzi ...
Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting involved with damaged women. After separating from his wife, a series of bad decisions leads to Chance sleeping with a patient named Jaclyn Blackstone. Unfortunately her ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective and the jealous type. Meanwhile, Dr. Chance meets a young man who goes by 'D,' who is fascinated by the dangerous affair with Jacl ...
Um die Familie als Wert zu starken, wird innerhalb eines gesamt europaischen Pilotprojekts in einem Freizeitpark das Personal zu Familien zusammengefuhrt – Gemeinsam leben und arbeiten". Der ehemaligen Schauspielerin Viva Vogelsang, die wir schon auf der Suche nach ihrem personlichen Mehrwert in Tim Staffels letzter Produktion kennengelernt haben, wird ein polnischer Ehemann und ein 18-jahriger schweizer Pflegesohn zugewiesen. Was sie alle nicht ...
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high-school boyfriend, and far from the life she had known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tam ...
Caroline hat genug von ihrem Job in der Delikatessenabteilung eines gro?en Supermarktes. Viel lieber mochte sie eine Tapas-Bar in Stockholm eroffnen. Dummerweise hat Caroline kein Geld – dafur hat sie einen Plan: Gemeinsam mit ihrem Kollegen und ihrem charmanten, kleinkriminellen Vater will sie einen Fleischtransporter klauen. Der Erlos der Beute soll ihr Startkapital sein. Doch dann lernt sie den Fahrer des Transporters kennen, und schon ist es ...
