Was fangen wir noch an mit diesem Leben, jetzt, nachdem wir die halbe Strecke schon gegangen sind? Zsuzsa Banks neuer Roman ist eine Feier der Freundschaft und des Lebens: Die Schriftstellerin Marta wohnt mit ihrem Mann und drei Kindern in einer deutschen Gro?stadt, die Lehrerin Johanna lebt allein in einem kleinen Ort im Schwarzwald. Beide Frauen kennen sich seit Kindheitstagen, in E-Mails von gro?er Tiefe und Offenheit halten sie engen Kontakt ...
"Mein Mann, seine Frauen und ich" ist ein Roman um das viel diskutierte Thema der Vielehe. Die Protagonistin ist frisch geschieden. Als sie einen irakischen Mann kennenlernt, ist sie fasziniert von ihm und verliebt sich Hals uber Kopf. Sie heiratet ihn sogar, weil der Islam Liebe ohne Trauschein nicht duldet. Sie akzeptiert, dass ihr neuer Ehemann bereits verheiratet ist und mit der anderen Frau auch Kinder hat, denn er legt ihr seine Welt ...
Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. But is this annual storytelling ritual a genuine attempt t ...
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply 'the wife,' once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes – a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions – the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everythin ...
When Ryan Beecher returns home after a long deployment overseas, Lexy barely recognizes her husband. The man who left Texas for Afghanistan was cruel and abusive. The man who comes back to her is a badly injured stranger with amnesia – and no memory of their life together. Lexy can't believe how much Ryan has changed. The wounded Marine is now gentle, caring, and tender – and his touch awakens yearnings she hasn't felt before. As he ta ...
A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once. ...
Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War-an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life's purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian's secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she w ...
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, twenty-three and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist and ended up in a hospital emergency wa ...
