A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour.[Bokinfo].
Catherine Chidgey Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Catherine Chidgey è un'acclamata romanziera e autrice di racconti. Le sue opere sono note per le loro acute intuizioni sulla psiche umana e per il loro magistrale uso del linguaggio. Chidgey esplora relazioni complesse e dilemmi morali con incrollabile onestà. La sua scrittura spesso rispecchia le sottili sfumature delle interazioni interpersonali e i paesaggi interiori dei suoi personaggi.







Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher, and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine’s sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Young as she is, Justine must decide where her loyalties lie.Set in New Zealand in 1984 and 2014, and probing themes of racism and misogyny, Pet is an elegant and chilling psychological thriller by the bestselling author of The Wish Child, Remote Sympathy and The Axeman’s Carnival.
LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.
Remote Sympathy
- 528pagine
- 19 ore di lettura
A moving story of entangled lives in Nazi Germany.
The Wish Child
- 384pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words (promise', love', `mercy'). Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. The days Siggi and Erich spend together will shape the rest of their lives.
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Neuseeländische Autoren in Berlin. Eine Anthologie
- 109pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Neuseeländische Autoren in Berlin. Eine Anthologie mit Beiträgen von Catherine Chidgey, Nigel Cox, William Direen, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, James McNeish, Cilla McQueen, Sarah Quigley, Tina Shaw, Philip Temple, Hone Tuwhare. Aus dem neuseeländischen Englisch von Cornelia C. Walter. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Wellington
In a Fishbone Church
- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to permeate his family's world. This book tells the story of three generations of the Stilton family.
