Liese O’Halloran Schwarz's schrijfwerk duikt in het ingewikkelde weefsel van menselijke relaties en de zoektocht naar identiteit. Haar verhalen worden gekenmerkt door scherp inzicht in de karakterpsychologie en een diepe emotionele resonantie. Schwarz verkent thema's als verlies, herinnering en de blijvende verbindingen tussen verleden en heden. Haar proza is zowel lyrisch als indringend, en biedt lezers een diep ontroerende literaire ervaring.
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, Beatrice, as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother, who disappeared decades earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, she 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 unfamiliar 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 is entabgled in a passionate affair, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand. -- back cover