Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months the[...]
"A gripping, bighearted book." --Khaled Hosseini
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award
One of the "New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2013 and named by "The Christian Science Monitor "as one of the top 15 works of fiction
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club," the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell[...]
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resu[...]
In Californiaâs central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austenâs novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear f[...]
" A] delightful and eccentric new tale"("The Boston Globe") from the author of the runaway bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club"
In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of "The Jane Austen Book Club" once again delivers top-notch storytelling, creating characters both oddbal[...]
Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern[...]
An anthology exploring sexuality and gender identiy includes a mix of fiction and nonfiction by such authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ted Chiang, and Vonda N. McIntyre.[...]
Finalist i det prestigefyllda Man Booker Prize 2014!Som barn pratade Rosemary oavbrutet. Så mycket att hennes pappa bad henne börja i historiens mitt varje gång hon ville berätta något. Nu har Rosemary börjat på universitetet och hon pratar inte längre oavbrutet. Minst av allt pratar hon om [...]
1870-luvun Yhdysvaltoihin sijoittuva vaellustarina arvoituksellisesta, linnun lailla ääntelevästä naisesta, jonka vuoksi kourallinen ihmisiä jättää kaiken. Eletään 1870-luvun alkua Yhdysvalloissa. Kiinalaisten rautatienrakentajien leiriin syöksähtää hienosti pukeutunut valkoinen nainen[...]
Simultaneously exploring and expanding gender roles, the stories in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 are thought-provoking, imaginative, and highly provocative. Touching on the most fundamental of human desires, Tiptree Award--winning authors continually redefine social identities. This collectio[...]
Stories for women, for men, and for the rest of us. Female, male, gay, bisexual, straight, transgender, human, alien, or simply other, the Tiptree Award honors fiction that explores and expands our notions of gender. This anthology includes the most recent Tiptree winners and short-listed stories p[...]