Mary Lawson Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Полный чувств, нежности, мягкой иронии роман о семье, о встречах и расставаниях, о потерях и обретениях, но прежде всего - о любви и о преданности близким. Юная бунтарка Роза пропала, ее младшая сестра Клара проводит дни у окна, надеясь увидеть, как та возвращается. Девочка наблюдает, как в соседний дом входит незнакомый мужчина. Клара прекрасно знает, что в доме живет одинокая Элизабет, которая сейчас находится в больнице. Клара пообещала соседке присматривать за домом, а главное - за оставшимся жильцом, котом Моисеем. История, рассказанная с трех точек зрения: Клары, Элизабет и вселившегося в дом Лайама — перемещает фокус с одного героя на другого, раскрывая все новые пл&

'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler Clara's rebellious older sister is missing. Grief-stricken and bewildered, she yearns to uncover the truth about what happened. Liam, newly divorced and newly unemployed, moves into the house next door and within hours gets a visit from the police. Elizabeth is thinking about a crime committed thirty years ago, one that had tragic consequences for two families. She desperately wants to make amends before she dies. 'Will break your heart' Graham Norton 'Exquisitely poignant' Liane Moriarty

On a perfect August morning in 1967, above a river just outside a small town in the north of Canada, a young man meets his death. And so begins the unravelling of his best friend Tom’s already precarious family… Eighteen months on, and the town of Struan is in the grip of winter. Still reeling from his friend’s death, Tom has dropped out and spends his days driving a snow plough. His mother has yet another new baby and is nesting upstairs, increasingly lost in her own world. His father, Edward, retreats to his study and his diaries, unable to cope with his growing, unruly family. There are so many brothers in the house that Tom has almost lost count, but Adam, who is only four, somehow can’t be ignored… Their one sister – capable, dependable, formidable Megan – who used to run the show, has escaped to London and is finally living her own life. But then come disturbing letters from home… In this masterful, enthralling, and tender novel, which takes us from the silver rush in Northern Ontario in the early 1900s to London in the 60s, Mary Lawson gently reveals the intricacies and anguish of family life, the push and pull of responsibility and individual desire, the way we can face tragedy and, in time, hope to start again.

Arthur è un uomo affidabile e tranquillo, profondamente legato alla terra dove è nato, nella cruda bellezza del Nord del Canada. Jake è affascinante e inquieto, incapace di trovare un posto nel mondo senza sconvolgere le vite degli altri. Arthur e degli altri. Arthur e Jake sono fratelli ma tra loro è sempre esistita una rivalità senza tregua, fin da quando, bambini, si sono contesi l'affetto della madre. Una rivalità che sfiora la tragedia quando Jake, spericolato e incosciente, rischia di morire cadendo da un ponte e Arthur, responsabile e accorto, questa volta non interviene. Tra loro si instaura un fragile equilibrio che resiste fino all'arrivo di Laura, per l'amore della quale i fratelli si separeranno definitivamente. Arthur rimane allora a occuparsi della fattoria di famiglia, mentre il fratello cerca fortuna in città. Ma quando, vent'anni dopo, Jake fa ritorno, riaffiorerà tragicamente l'antico e mai sopito antagonismo. Un romanzo attraversato dal dramma della seconda guerra mondiale, una narrazione delicata in cui gelosia, desiderio e ossessione creano una continua tensione emotiva e i complessi legami tra i protagonisti si inquadrano in una cornice di ineluttabile e struggente pathos.

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.