This is the towering story of two families struggling against the tide of history. Some, pushed beyond the threshold of despair, do not survive. The others must find their way back to a place of peace and forgiveness. Through anger, injustice and betrayal, the family discovers that there is a force stronger than war.
Klima's achievement lies in his humane understanding of moral confusions and his sympathetic rendering of them, and especially in his ability to question while avoiding the polemical. Irish Times
Winner of the Orange Prize. This novel is a captivating exploration of climate change, poverty, and human resilience set in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee.
At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, cheered on by delighted tourists. In that second, everything changes, not just for the happy couple, but for the family and friends awaiting their return in Bridgeport, Ireland ...
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children.But life, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane falls pregnant.
Forty two and married for half of her life. Jessie Sullivan lives quiet conventionally. She honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a good, dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter. But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish the cause of her mother's increasingly strange behavior, Jessie is drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows.
It's 1944 when twin sisters, Pearl and Stasha, arrive at Auschwitz. They take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood, all under the watchful eye of Josef Mengele, the camp physician known as the Angel of Death ...
Kowalski introduces Haley Bombauer (a.k.a Flash Jackson), a girl who is longing to burst out of the confines of her provincial upbringing. With compassion and humor, the novel tells of her emergence into a world that 'was not designed with girls in mind'.
Eight years ago, Nova Kumalisi agreed to have a baby for Mal and Stephanie Wacken. Halfway through the pregnancy, the couple changed their minds and walked away, leaving Nova pregnant, scared and alone.
Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of the Algerian army officer Mohamed Moulessehoul, who is the author of five other books published in English, among them The Swallows of Kabul, Wolf Dreams, and In the Name of God
On a midsummer's night Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and KAte, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all their lives.
Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured the small towns of the Outback, carried her on stage when she was barely minutes old in order to introduce her to her first audience.From such humble beginnings Catriona had grown up to emerge as a rare talent, her voice garnering her praise from the public and critics alike. But her journey from performing popular songs for a few pennies to becoming an acclaimed opera diva on the Sydney stage, has been fraught with hardship and tragedy. And now some old scandalous secrets from her past are threatening her present, her family and all she has achieved
