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Bernice Rubens

    1 januari 1923 – 13 oktober 2004

    Bernice Rubens was een Britse auteur wier werken zich vaak verdiepten in complexe familiedynamiek en de innerlijke worstelingen van haar personages. Haar schrijven kenmerkt zich door scherpe inzichten in de menselijke psychologie en het vermogen om diep resonerende figuren te creëren. Met haar kenmerkende stem en thematische aandacht verwierf Rubens een belangrijke plaats in de literatuur, met verhalen die thema's als identiteit, schuld en de zoektocht naar betekenis onderzochten. Haar romans worden geprezen om hun emotionele diepgang en literaire vakmanschap.

    Autobiopsy
    I Sent a Letter to My Love
    Madame Sousatzka
    Yesterday In The Back Lane
    Brothers
    Het koninkrijk kome
    • Het koninkrijk kome

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Levensgeschiedenis van de zoon van een joodse poelier in het Turkije van de zeventiende eeuw, die vanaf zijn geboorte werd beschouwd als de messias.

      Het koninkrijk kome
    • Brothers

      • 512bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen
      4,4(182)Tarief

      BROTHERS is a heart-breaking record of persecution and inhumanity; it is also a testament to human endurance, faith and love.

      Brothers
    • 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'.

      Yesterday In The Back Lane
    • Madame Sousatzka

      • 228bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,7(3)Tarief

      In this touching and entertaining novel, Madame Sousatzka is a dedicated piano teacher who emphasizes teaching her students not just music, but also life lessons. The story connects to an upcoming television movie featuring Shirley MacLaine.

      Madame Sousatzka
    • I Sent a Letter to My Love

      • 214bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,8(13)Tarief

      Tells the story of Amy Evans' bold play for happiness, and her dangerous success.

      I Sent a Letter to My Love
    • Pick his brains - you know it makes sense. Well, what would you do? Your mentor and best friend, herald as the 'greatest novelist of our time', suddenly expires, and you find yourself bereft of a cherished companion's wit and wisdom. Your twelve-year stretch of writer's block, too, now seems like a life sentence. For Martin Peabody, the answer is simple. You remove your dead friend's brain, syphon off his thoughts, and use them as inspiration to revive your career and write a fitting testament to a great man - an autobiopsy, if you like. This superbly sharp and funny novel shows Booker-winner Bernice Rubens at her best.

      Autobiopsy
    • The Elected Member

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,7(1391)Tarief

      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.

      The Elected Member
    • 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?

      Milwaukee
    • 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.

      Ich, Dreyfus