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An epic narrative that takes a look at slavery in all of its moral complexities.

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.

A scientist in Alaska becomes fascinated by an Aleut woman's muteness, and her disappearance ignites his desperation. This novel intertwines myth and a gripping tale of erotic compulsion, set against the haunting backdrop of the Great North.

Keď jeho matka náhle zomrie a on sa dopustí zločinu, je desaťročný Mich O'Keane vyňatý z rodiny. Svoje detstvo trávi v hrozných podmienkach v rôznych nápravných zariadeniach. Systematické poníženia a zneužívanie z neho robia vážne zmäteného a násilného mladého muža. Keď Mich konečne vyjde na slobodu, vracia sa na svoje rodné miesto. Potulujúc sa po poliach a lesoch svojho detstva sa zdá, že sa nedokáže zbaviť svojej minulosti a hnevu za to, čo mu bolo spôsobené. 'De Kinderschreck' obťažuje jeho rodinu a zasieva paniku medzi ostatnými obyvateľmi dediny. Potom je unesená mladá žena Eily Ryan a jej trojročný syn, krátko nato zmizne aj kňaz John Fitzgerald. Nasleduje pátranie. 'V gozdu' je bolestný príbeh, založený na skutočnej trojnásobnej vražde, o mladíkovi, ktorý je už v mladom veku tak veľmi poškodený, že mu život už nemá čo dobré ponúknuť. O'Brien vo svojej známej jasnej štýle, presných charakterizáciách a lyrických opisoch vykresľuje sklamaný portrét života odsúdeného na neúspech.

As Quentin Crisp used to say, "Don't keep up with the Joneses! <i>Drag them down to your level!</i>" This could be the motto of the suburbanites in A.M. Homes's fourth novel, <i>Music for Torching</i>. Homes has a subtle eye and ear for suburban reality, but beware: she is no mere satirist of what James Joyce called the "muddle crass." Behind each neat, bright lawn, vile lives writhe in darkness. On the surface, Paul and Elaine are conventionally competitive middle-aged, middle-class people with banal yearnings for French doors and a new deck. They have two strapping boys. Their neighbors Pat and George are prodigies of efficient family life. But alone with Elaine, Pat drops the Stepford Wife mask and stages loveless orgies atop the throbbing washer, amid the Downy and Fantastik and Bon Ami. Meanwhile, Paul beds a local wife and a sinister mistress. The nice old man down the street downloads Internet child porn. Local kids join the Boy Scouts and bite off teachers' fingers. It's all about lurid misery and false fronts: a minor character is named Claire Roth, surely alluding to the bitter relationship in Claire Bloom's <i>Leaving a Doll's House</i> and Philip Roth's <i>I Married a Communist</i>. <p> Paul and Elaine first popped up in Homes's collection <i>The Safety of Objects</i>, as a couple having the happiest night of their lives smoking crack while the kids are away. Their happiest night here is when they tip the barbecue and burn their house halfway down. The story proceeds with a nightmare zombie logic from there, with a funny-scary ironic tone. "Paul notices that the color of her eye shadow is Fiction, and her lipstick is called Sheer Fraud.... 'What happened to the dining-room table, Elaine? Why'd you chop it to pieces?'" he wonders. "The damage was irreparable," his wife replies. Homes describes nice people doing not-so-nice deeds in luminous, precise prose way better than Bret Easton Ellis, as well as Joyce Carol Oates, and occasionally within range of John Updike. But Homes is really the evil spawn of Grace Metalious and Quentin Tarantino. <i>--Tim Appelo</i></p>

An Egyptian woman's reflections on her changing homeland—updated with an afterword on the Arab SpringIn language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian desert, Leila Ahmed movingly recounts her Egyptian childhood growing up in a rich tradition of Islamic women and describes how she eventually came to terms with her identity as a feminist living in America. As a young woman in Cairo in the forties and fifties, Ahmed witnessed some of the major transformations of this century—the end of British colonialism, the rise of Arab nationalism, and the breakdown of Egypt's once multireligious society. As today's Egypt continues to undergo revolutionary change, Ahmed's inspirational story remains as poignant and relevant as ever.

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of 'Victorian verse'

Persoonlijk verslag van een moeder over de relatie met haar autistische zoon; over de veranderingen in haarzelf en in haar zoon, met betrekking tot elkaar en de buitenwereld.

This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on the other side of the world, Charade Ryan sorts through story and counter-story for her father, the legendary Nicholas, and the truth about her origins.

Na de dood van haar moeder wordt een veertienjarig Iers meisje in toenemende mate door haar vader seksueel misbruikt, waardoor ze in verwachting raakt en wegloopt van huis.

Ludo&#39;s mother, Sibylla, is obsessed with Kurosawa&#39;s famous film, &#34;The Seven Samurai&#34; and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother&#39;s shaky past.