National Bestseller

In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother?and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a [...]

From the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of AMYISABELLE, a deeply moving story of love, abandonment, and the peril of family secrets...[...]

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in[...]

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - SOON TO BE AN HBO MINISERIES
In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, "New York Times" bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger[...]

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote "The New Yorker" on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Olive Kitteridge." The "San Francisco Chronicle" praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaim[...]

Two brothers' lives are irrevocably altered when their 19-year-old nephew is embroiled in a scandal of his own making[...]

Elizabeth Strout's acclaimed novel Olive Kitteridge is now the basis for a HBO drama starring Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to ma[...]

Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything - although, lately, her certitude has been shaken. This indomitable character appear[...]

Olive Kitteridge

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Pulitzerprisvinnare ? boken bakom hyllad HBO-serie

Den Pulitzerprisbelönade novellsamlingen Olive Kitteridge av Elizabeth Strout lämnar ingen oberörd. Nu har den fått ny aktualitet i och med den hyllade HBO-serien med samma namn som hade premiär i november 2014. Det är en bok för alla[...]