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“In this smart and engaging follow-up to her well-received debut, The Hazards of Good Breeding, Shattuck focuses on three privileged Gen X college roommates who are now grown up, coupled up, and raising kids in pre-recession Boston. The cracks in their ‘perfect lives’ begin to show when the most precocious of the trio, a gorgeous striver named Jenny whose husband is infertile, makes the unconventional decision to have a baby with a sperm donation from Neil, her brainy, slacker ex-boyfriend from Harvard. . . . Stylish storytelling and sharp social commentary . . . make Perfect Life both topical and eminently readable.”—People
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This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Told from five perspectives, the novel spans an explosive week in the life of the Dunlaps, culminating in a series of events that will change their way of life forever.Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric, puritanical Jack Dunlap, is carrying on stoically after the breakup of his marriage, but he can't stop thinking of Rosita, the family housekeeper he fired almost six months ago. Caroline's little brother, Eliot, is working on a giant papier-mâché diorama of their town—or is he hatching a plan of larger proportions?As the real reason for Rosita's departure is revealed, the novel culminates in a series of events that assault the fragile, sheltered, and arguably obsolete world of the Dunlaps.Opening a window into a family's repressed desires and fears, The Hazards of Good Breeding is a startlingly perceptive comedy of manners that heralds a new writer of dazzling talent.A New York Times Notable Selection and a Boston Globe Book of the Year.
Women of the Castle
the moving New York Times bestseller for readers of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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In war they made impossible choices. Now can they live with them?'Moving . . . surprises and devastates' New York Times'Masterful' People'Mesmerising . . . reveals new truths about one of history's most tragic eras' USA TodayThe Third Reich has crumbled. The Russians are coming.Marianne von Lingenfels - widow of a resister murdered by the Nazi regime - finds refuge in the crumbling Bavarian castle where she once played host to German high society. There she fulfils her promise to find and protect the wives and children of her husband's brave conspirators, rescuing her dearest friend's widow, Benita, from sexual slavery to the Russian army, and Ania from a work camp for political prisoners. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family she is certain their shared pain will bind them together.But as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her role in the Nazi regime, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled world view has no place in these new, frightening and emotionally-charged days.All three women must grapple with the realities they now face, and the consequences of decisions each made in the darkest of times . . . Deeply moving and compelling, The Women of the Castle is a heart-wrenching and hopeful novel of secrets and survival, a reckoning, and the astonishing power of forgiveness. Perfect for fans of All the Light You Cannot See, The Reader and The Light Between Oceans.
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Andra världskrigets slut.Som änka återvänder Marianne von Lingenfels till det sargade slott där hon en gång bott tillsammans med sin man och varit där hon agerat värdinna för ett oändligt antal tyska socitetsfester. Ett slott som också inhyst och varit samlingsplats för den motståndsrörelse hennes man startade för att bekämpa nazisterna.Fast besluten att hålla löftet till sin man, att hitta och ta hand om de andra motståndsmännens änkor och barn, lyckas hon hitta och rädda sexårige Martin från nazisterna och mamman Benita undan sexslaveri i den ryska armén. Hon hittar ytterligare en änka, Ania, i ett arbetsläger för politiska fångar.I slottet bygger hon upp ett hem för sig och de andra änkornas familjer, övertygad om att deras gemensamma förflutna för alltid binder dem samman.Men Marianne upptäcker snart att hennes naiva syn på att de alla ska kunna leva som vänner och familj, är oändligt mycket mer komplicerad än hon har kunnat ana. Kvinnorna och deras relation påverkas i högsta grad av de liv de levde före, under och efter kriget.Jessica Shattuck är journalist och författare. Hon medverkar bland annat i The New Yorker, The New York Times och Glamour och har skrivit flera romaner. Hon bor med sin man och tre barn i Massachusetts.