La scrittura di Liese O’Halloran Schwarz si addentra nell'intricato arazzo delle relazioni umane e nella ricerca dell'identità. Le sue narrazioni sono caratterizzate da un acuto sguardo sulla psicologia dei personaggi e da una profonda risonanza emotiva. Schwarz esplora temi di perdita, memoria e le connessioni durature tra passato e presente. La sua prosa è sia lirica che incisiva, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza letteraria profondamente toccante.
A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' Jodi PicoultBen is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others.
`Intelligent, thoughtful, resourceful' WASHINGTON POSTFilmmaking student Buddy Whyte never visited his mother's hometown while she was alive. But in a small town where even disparate voices agree that the past is best kept hidden from outsiders, will he actually learn the truth?
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers.Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US--ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But in truth, Robert works for American intelligence, Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband's boss, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand.Alternating between past and present as all of the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is an unforgettable novel about a family shattered by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can exist even in the midst of brokenness.