An erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences
In 1978, Dawit, a young, beautiful, and educated Ethiopian refugee, roams the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author M., who at sixty is at the height of her fame. Seduced by Dawit's grace and his movin[...]
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America and represent, at its most piercing, a univ[...]
Forty years after the disappearance of a beautiful schoolgirl, thirteen members of her swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the weeks leading to her disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions resurface, the women relive the horror of a long-buried se[...]
Sheila Kohler is on tour to promote the paperback reprints of "Crossways" and "The Perfect Place."
""A wholly entrancing narrative. . . . Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay."
"-"J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace
Forty years after a beautiful schoolgirl disappears into the South African veld, the survivors of her former swimming team gather at a reunion and piece together the weeks prior to her disappearance, a period marked by a dark secret. By the author of The Perfect Place. Reprint.[...]
The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates.[...]