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Exploring the complexities of familial relationships, the narrative delves into the dynamics of love, conflict, and reconciliation within a family. Characters grapple with their pasts while navigating the challenges of their present, revealing secrets that test their bonds. Themes of identity, belonging, and the impact of shared history are central, offering a poignant reflection on what it means to be part of a family. The story unfolds with emotional depth, inviting readers to contemplate their own connections and the frames that define them.

In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.Kathryn Harrison always understood that her family was beyond eccentric -- they'd breached the bounds of the unconventional. She was largely raised by her grandparents in an outsized Tudor confection of a house on the periphery of Bel Air, which she thought of as "Sunset," her kingdom of the imagination, inhabited by the past and its numberless artifacts. True wandering Jews, her grandparents had arrived in Los Angeles in the forties after dramatic, globetrotting lives. Harry Jacobs had been a fur trapper in Alaska, a soldier in the trenches of the Great War, a traveling salesman in a Model T. Margaret Sassoon had lived a privileged life as a member of a Jewish merchant family in Shanghai, turning down offers of marriage from Russian princes exiled by the Revolution. Kathryn Harrison grew up in an almost mythical realm of their letters and artifacts and stories -- until declining finances forced to sell the house on Sunset in 1971, and night fell fast. On Sunset seeks to recover that childhood, that place, those lives -- and does so with piercing poignancy.

Nesmrtelný příběh o síle lidské odvahy. Hluboce inspirativní a plně zdokumentovaný příběh Jany z Arku, kterou roku 1428 „hlasy“ přiměly k tomu, aby sjednotila francouzský národ a přemluvila zdráhavého krále k boji proti anglickým okupantům, fascinoval takovou plejádu uměleckých osobností, jako byl William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Bertold Brecht nebo Robert Bresson. Byla Jana z Arku světice plná božského osvícení? Schizofrenička? Démonem posedlá heretička, jak se snažili dokázat její žalobci a věznitelé? Každá éra musí převyprávět a přetvořit neobyčejný příběh Panny orleánské po svém a vynikající novelistka a memoáristka Kathryn Harrisonová nám ve své knize Jana z Arku: Proměněný život představuje Janu pro naši dobu – příklad neotřesitelné víry, neobyčejné odvahy a sebedůvěry během brutálně zmanipulovaného inkvizičního procesu a tváří v tvář smrti upálením. Harrisonová obratně proplétá fakta, mýty, folklor, umělecké reflexe a staletí učeneckých a kritických interpretací do poutavého příběhu, ve kterém Janě z Arku navrací její právoplatné místo jedné z největších hrdinek celé lidské historie a akcentuje při tom její ženskou roli.

From the author of The Kiss, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar. New Year's Day, St Petersburg, 1917. Divers pull the body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Within hours, his daughters are taken to the Royal Palace, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request: would Masha, eighteen, take on her father's role as healer to the Tsarevitch Alyosha? Two months later, revolution has toppled the Tsar, and the entire family is placed under house arrest. Trapped together in harsh conditions, Masha and Alyosha find solace in one another's company. Two teenagers, with radically different experiences of the Romanov's ill-fated reign, create a private realm of magic and love, as Masha introduces Alyosha to the wild and beautiful land he will never rule. 'A stupendous work of historical imagination' Peter Carey

In Shanghai 1878 wird der kleinen May brutal die Füße gebrochen, um ihren Heiratswert zu steigern. Doch sie kämpft um ihre Eigenständigkeit und muss schließlich ihren Körper verkaufen, was sie auf eine Reise vom Shanghai des 19. Jahrhunderts über London bis zur Riviera der 1920er Jahre führt.

From the author of 'The Kiss' and 'The Binding Chair' comes an intense novel of dark secrets and sexual betrayal.

A scientist in Alaska becomes fascinated by an Aleut woman's muteness, and her disappearance ignites his desperation. This novel intertwines myth and a gripping tale of erotic compulsion, set against the haunting backdrop of the Great North.

En la China de principios del siglo XX, Mai es sometida al doloroso ritual de vender los pies a las niñas. Después de huir de un matrimonio concertado, es rescatada de un burdel de Shangai por Arthur Cohen, un australiano que lucha por la abolición de la brutal práctica que acabará secretamente seducido por sus pequeños pies.

Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Shanghai, the narrative explores the intertwined lives of a Chinese woman seeking to escape her past and a Western girl drawn to the possibilities ahead. Through themes of love, revenge, and the quest for belonging, the story delves into the complexities of identity and the contrasts between cultures. Kathryn Harrison's elegant prose captures the essence of travel and the profound emotional journeys of its characters.

Het leven van een Spaanse vrouw kruist dat van een Franse prinses, die is getrouwd met de onaantrekkelijke koning Carlos II van Spanje, ten tijde van de Spaanse inquisitie in de zeventiende eeuw in Madrid.