The Elected Member
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Elected Member winning the Booker Prize, Abacus is reissuing Bernice Rubens's classic novel with a bold new cover.
Bernice Rubens Ordine dei libri
1 gennaio 1923 – 13 ottobre 2004
Bernice Rubens è stata un'autrice britannica le cui opere si sono spesso immerse in complesse dinamiche familiari e nelle lotte interiori dei suoi personaggi. La sua scrittura si distingue per la tagliente intuizione della psicologia umana e la capacità di creare figure profondamente risonanti. Attraverso la sua voce distintiva e le sue preoccupazioni tematiche, Rubens si è ritagliata un posto significativo nella letteratura, con le sue narrazioni che esplorano questioni di identità, colpa e la ricerca di significato. I suoi romanzi sono lodati per la loro profondità emotiva e la loro maestria letteraria.
- 2020
- 2002
Resting in a hospice for the terminally ill, Annie is dying. Supported by her oldest friend, Clemmie, who listens and sympathises, she looks back over her life. Each woman has had a disappointing marriage: Clemmie to a man who turned out to be gay; Annie to a man who left her under tragic circumstances. Gradually Annie reveals her story. At 18 a GI whom she never sees again impregnates her in the back of a truck. Living alone with her mother, she brings up her daughter to believe the child's father is a dead war hero. After a few years Annie marries Eric, a charming man. However when Mary, her daughter, discovers the truth she is horrified and goes to the US - to Milwaukee - to try and locate her genuine father. She returns with a man who claims to be him, but Annie is highly suspicious. Is Mary trying to get her revenge on the mother - and subsequently Eric - whom she feels betrayed her by lying about her true parentage?
- 2001
Que peut faire quelqu'un d'une douleur aggravée d'un sentiment de culpabilité ? Que peut faire quelqu'un d'une douleur qu'il ne peut partager ? Alistair Crown, psychiatre, sait tout sur la culpabilité jusqu'à ce qu'il en soit victime lui-même. Alors il ne sait plus comment l'aborder. Mais il est expert en griffonnages et, à travers ses dessins, il se débat et finit par trouver une forme de solution... La construction romanesque est brillante, le style mordant. C'est drôle, ironique et finalement assez poignant.
- 2001
Sir Alfred Dreyfus verbüßt eine lebenslange Haftstrafe für ein Verbrechen, das er nicht begangen hat. Dreyfus ist unschuldig - aber er ist Jude. Antisemitische Verschwörer haben ihn aus dem Weg geschafft. Doch hinter Gittern greift Dreyfus zu seiner stärksten Waffe: In seiner Autobiographie deckt der ehemals erfolgreiche Schulleiter die Umstände auf, die zu seiner Verurteilung führten. Das Bekenntnis führt Dreyfus auch zu sich selbst zurück, zu seinen jüdischen Wurzeln, die er für die Karriere verleugnen mußte.
- 1995
As Bronwen Davis looks back over her life she is forced to deal with her killing of a man who tried to rape her when she was little more than a child. By the author of Àutobiopsy'.
- 1992
Het koninkrijk kome
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Levensgeschiedenis van de zoon van een joodse poelier in het Turkije van de zeventiende eeuw, die vanaf zijn geboorte werd beschouwd als de messias.
- 1989
