Rob van der Veer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Een arts op het Zuid-Afrikaanse platteland, die zich heeft geschikt in zijn weinig opzienbarende leven, wordt wakker geschud door de komst van een nieuwe, jonge collega.

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong."--Book jacket (hardcover edition).

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.