Anne Rabinovitch Boeken

When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller visited her parents in Zambia for Christmas, she inquired about a nearby banana farmer known as a "tough bugger." Her father's warning to avoid him—"Curiosity scribbled the cat"—didn't deter her from forming an unusual friendship with K, a white African and Rhodesian war veteran. In her beautifully crafted prose, Fuller explores this complex relationship. K is a man of contradictions: a tattooed, battle-scarred figure, both feral and resilient, yet also a born-again Christian who weeps over his failed romances and is haunted by memories of war. His experiences were brutal, marked by racial conflict, jungle battles, and the suffering of innocents, leaving him with blood on his hands. Together, Fuller and K embark on a journey through Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to revisit war scenes and meet fellow veterans. This journey into the past is filled with somber reflections and unexpected humor. Fuller's narrative offers an unbiased, unsentimental view of men grappling with their wartime actions and the struggle to reconcile with their pasts. Through these men, she provides insight into life in Africa, a land fraught with challenges that make its inhabitants both hardened and vulnerable. The book presents a haunting exploration of war, Africa, and the fragile boundaries of sanity.

Het bestaan van het echtpaar Nedra en Viri is gericht op luxueuze etentjes met hun benijdenswaardige vrienden, ingenieuze spelletjes met hun kinderen en tot in de puntjes georganiseerde dagen die ze doorbrengen met schaatsen of zonnen op het strand. Maar er zitten barstjes in het ogenschijnlijk perfecte oppervlak, tekortkomingen die onherroepelijk tot het verval van hun relatie zullen leiden. Lichtjaren , dat in 1975 voor het eerst verscheen, is een moderne klassieker; een verleidelijke, geestige, tedere en tot de verbeelding sprekende roman over een generatie mensen die de grenzen van hun geluk ontdekken.

Pulitzer Prize winning-author Geraldine Brooks transports the reader to 1660s Martha's Vineyard and Cambridge to tell the dramatic tale of the intertwined destinies of Caleb Cheshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard, and Bethia Mayfield, a young woman who is struggling to find her own place in the world even as she helps enable Caleb to cross from his world into hers.

Een meisje groeit op in een stadje in Mississippi, geobsedeerd door de nooit opgeloste moord op haar negen jaar oudere broer. Als ze twaalf is, neemt ze het besluit de moordenaar te vinden.