Novela sobre la relación entre niños y adultos, homenaje a la grandeza de la imaginación y elegía por el final de una era y de una generación que murió en las trincheras de la primera guerra mundial.
Frederica Potter, «condenada a ser inteligente», se sumerge en la vida de la Universidad de Cambridge, ávida de conocimientos, sexo y amor. En Yorkshire, su hermana Stephanie ha abandonado el mundo académico por la cómoda...
«Una fría mirada a la manera en que la gente hace. frente a la falta de sentido del Tiempo.. Rituales,. en su economía y lucidez, es una pequeña y excéntrica. obra de arte.». The Sunday Times. Tres historias similar...
Dos niños, extraños entre sí, se encuentran en una casa en París: Leopold espera a su madre, a la que nunca ha visto; Henrietta espera un tren. En una habitación del piso de arriba, una anciana yace moribunda y su melanc...
Unas niñas se refugian en el bosque durante la guerra, donde tendrán una visión aterradora que las mantendrá unidas para siempre. Una mujer se convierte poco a poco en piedra y un escultor la reconoce como parte del mundo ocult...
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and...
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and...
A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession is an exhilarating novel...
As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man...
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one manâs search for certainty.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of an English family, illuminating the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels us to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination.