Rob van der Veer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting in a former homeland of the new South Africa, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic, and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the meagre staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. The tired, ghostly town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier, a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And down at Mama's Place, the town's only watering hole, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid for his own dark reasons. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. "From the Hardcover edition."

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region.

Dejiny lásky sú akousi poctou pre veci stratené, pre nevyriešené záhady. Osudy hrdinov sú zasadené do súčasného New Yorku, každý z rozprávačov má pritom vlastný štýl, vlastný príbeh, no pomaly sa začnú prepletať navzájom, tak ako aj so záhadným rukopisom knihy s rovnakým názvom. (Artforum) Leo Gursky je starý imigrant vracajúci sa v spomienkach do rodného Poľska, ktorý tajne sleduje život svojho znovu-nájdeného syna. Alma Singer, mladučké dievča, sa musí vyrovnať so smrťou svojho otca a pátra po žene, po ktorej dostala meno – hlavnej hrdinke záhadného románu...(Artforum)

Dr Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reflecting on the complicated, violent and tragic events that brought her there her stormy marriage to John, a brilliant mathematician, her painstaking research work among the wild chimpanzees in the national park, her encounters with the chaos of the civil war. She examines her past and tries to find tranquility.