The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistable. One day in the old Jewish quarter of the[...]
Award-winning author Nancy Huston follows her bestselling novel, "Fault Lines," winner of the Prix Femina, with an intensely provocative story about a passionate yet emotionally-wounded woman's sexual explorations.
After a troubled childhood and two failed marriages, Rena Greenblatt has [...]
Fyra generationer förenade av en hemlighet
Livslinjer är en vindlande roman som varsamt blottlägger de ögonblick då tiden bryts och livet ändras för alltid. Genom fyra sexåringars blick berättas historien om en amerikansk familj av tyskt ursprung.
Berättelsen tar sin[...]