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
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.
This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the color red, The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World itself.
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.
