Stuart Nadler – författare

'I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often' - Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the WorldFor fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart - across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities - by war.For the Alterman family, Fania and Arnold, and their children Sonja and Moses, the universe has been fractured.In 1938 Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She is the only member of her family to survive.In 1966 Fania works as a massage therapist in Montreal, a place that has provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the war.In 2016 Arnold lives out the last of his days and the last memories he has of his family in the city he has always called home.And in 2000, Moses awaits the birth of his grandson, unaware that the strings that tie him to his past are being drawn tighter and tighter.Surely none of these realities co-exist, and yet they seem to be drawing closer . . .Moving between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Stuart Nadler's Rooms for Vanishing is a spellbinding exploration of what might happen when grief and hope collide.

'I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often' - Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the WorldFor fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart - across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities - by war.For the Alterman family, Fania and Arnold, and their children Sonja and Moses, the universe has been fractured.In 1938 Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She is the only member of her family to survive.In 1966 Fania works as a massage therapist in Montreal, a place that has provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the war.In 2016 Arnold lives out the last of his days and the last memories he has of his family in the city he has always called home.And in 2000, Moses awaits the birth of his grandson, unaware that the strings that tie him to his past are being drawn tighter and tighter.Surely none of these realities co-exist, and yet they seem to be drawing closer . . .Moving between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Stuart Nadler's Rooms for Vanishing is a spellbinding exploration of what might happen when grief and hope collide.

‘I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often’ – Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the WorldFor fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart – across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities – by war.For the Alterman family, Fania and Arnold, and their children Sonja and Moses, the universe has been fractured.In 1938 Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She is the only member of her family to survive.In 1966 Fania works as a massage therapist in Montreal, a place that has provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the war.In 2016 Arnold lives out the last of his days and the last memories he has of his family in the city he has always called home.And in 2000, Moses awaits the birth of his grandson, unaware that the strings that tie him to his past are being drawn tighter and tighter.Surely none of these realities co-exist, and yet they seem to be drawing closer . . .Moving between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Stuart Nadler’s Rooms for Vanishing is a spellbinding exploration of what might happen when grief and hope collide.

‘I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often’ – Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the WorldFor fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and one family blown apart – across the globe, across time, across parallel possibilities – by war.For the Alterman family, Fania and Arnold, and their children Sonja and Moses, the universe has been fractured.In 1938 Sonja is lifted onto a Kindertransport train that will take her from Nazi-occupied Austria to London. She is the only member of her family to survive.In 1966 Fania works as a massage therapist in Montreal, a place that has provided her safe haven after she lost her entire family in the war.In 2016 Arnold lives out the last of his days and the last memories he has of his family in the city he has always called home.And in 2000, Moses awaits the birth of his grandson, unaware that the strings that tie him to his past are being drawn tighter and tighter.Surely none of these realities co-exist, and yet they seem to be drawing closer . . .Moving between Vienna and Prague, London and Montreal, New York and Miami, Stuart Nadler’s Rooms for Vanishing is a spellbinding exploration of what might happen when grief and hope collide.

‘Stuart Nadler is a great writer’ – Time Out'Perfectly crafted' – Financial TimesThe Book of Life is comprised of seven stunning tales about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption. They show us at our most vulnerable and our most miraculous. They show moments of grief and betrayal as well as humour and happiness. They show us the best of people and the worst. They show us life.Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing, is a writer in the great American tradition, but one who emerges from the shadows – of Updike, of Bellow, of Cheever – and stakes his own bold and exciting claim.‘Impressive stories’ – Guardian

‘Absorbing . . . atmospheric’ – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall‘Tense, evocative, page turning’ – Emma Donoghue, author of RoomThe sweeping American novel about race, love and family by Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing.Hilton Wise is the son of one of the most powerful and wealthy lawyers in the United States. When he falls for Savannah, a young black girl he meets on Cape Cod during the summer of 1952, he has no idea that his passion for her will lead to the exposure of his father’s deepest secrets. The result will shatter his family, and hers.Years later, unable to forget, Hilton abandons his comfortable life on the east coast and sets out to find Savannah. But as he struggles to right the wrongs he set in motion he comes to realize that forgiveness doesn’t have a price.Set in the last half of the twentieth century, years that changed America for ever, Wise Men is a sweeping story about love and regret, about the crushing weight of familial obligation, and about the difficulty of doing the right thing in an unjust world.‘Nadler skillfully creates characters whose failures and faults make them comically, endearingly human’ – New Yorker

‘Stuart Nadler is a great writer’ – Time Out'Perfectly crafted' – Financial TimesThe Book of Life is comprised of seven stunning tales about all the big things: faith, love, family, temptation and redemption. They show us at our most vulnerable and our most miraculous. They show moments of grief and betrayal as well as humour and happiness. They show us the best of people and the worst. They show us life.Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing, is a writer in the great American tradition, but one who emerges from the shadows – of Updike, of Bellow, of Cheever – and stakes his own bold and exciting claim.‘Impressive stories’ – Guardian

‘Absorbing . . . atmospheric’ – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall‘Tense, evocative, page turning’ – Emma Donoghue, author of RoomThe sweeping American novel about race, love and family by Stuart Nadler, author of Rooms for Vanishing.Hilton Wise is the son of one of the most powerful and wealthy lawyers in the United States. When he falls for Savannah, a young black girl he meets on Cape Cod during the summer of 1952, he has no idea that his passion for her will lead to the exposure of his father’s deepest secrets. The result will shatter his family, and hers.Years later, unable to forget, Hilton abandons his comfortable life on the east coast and sets out to find Savannah. But as he struggles to right the wrongs he set in motion he comes to realize that forgiveness doesn’t have a price.Set in the last half of the twentieth century, years that changed America for ever, Wise Men is a sweeping story about love and regret, about the crushing weight of familial obligation, and about the difficulty of doing the right thing in an unjust world.‘Nadler skillfully creates characters whose failures and faults make them comically, endearingly human’ – New Yorker

Ein ungewollter Verrat an der ersten Liebe und dessen lebenslange FolgenIn seinem Debütroman führt Stuart Nadler das Schicksal zweier Familien zusammen, die gesellschaftlich nicht entfernter voneinander sein könnten: das der im Amerika der 1950er-Jahre zu unermesslichem Reichtum gekommenen Familie Wise und das ihres schwarzen Hausangestellten Lem. Ein Roman über eine erste Liebe, die auf fatale Weise schiefläuft und Vater und Sohn ein Leben lang entzweit.Fast über Nacht ist Arthur Wise, Spezialist für Flugzeugunglücke, zu einem der reichsten Anwälte Amerikas geworden. Von seinem Geld kauft er in den frühen 1950er-Jahren ein Strandhaus auf Cape Cod. Im ersten Sommer dort freundet sich sein 15-jähriger Sohn Hilly mit dem schwarzen Hausdiener Lem Dawson an. Als Hilly sich in dessen Nichte Savannah verliebt, führt das zu Verwicklungen, die das Leben aller Beteiligten für immer umstürzen werden.Erst als erwachsener Mann, er hat mittlerweile selbst vier Töchter, kommt Hilly einem Familiengeheimnis auf die Spur, das sein ganzes Leben und auch seinen Vater im Rückblick in völlig neuem Licht erscheinen lässt.Eine Geschichte von Stolz und Verrat, von Schuld und Versöhnung, von der Tragik der guten Tat, die zum Verhängnis wird. Ein Generationenroman, der uns in die Welt der noch ganz stark von Klassen- und Rassengrenzen geprägten 1950er-Jahre bis in die Gegenwart führt. Elegant erzählt, ein einziges Lesevergnügen.

»Melancholisch, einfühlsam und wunderbar geschrieben« Publishers WeeklyDieser Erzählungsband hat Stuart Nadler in den USA Vergleiche mit dem jungen Saul Bellow, mit Nathan Englander und mit John Cheever eingebracht. Zu Recht. Die Genauigkeit und Eindringlichkeit, aber auch der Humor, mit dem Nadler seinen Kosmos – die jüdische Familie mit allen ihren Beziehungsabgründen – beschreibt, zeigt ihn als ganz großen Erzähler. Stuart Nadler schaut ganz genau hin und kennt seine Figuren mit all ihren Schwächen, als würde er täglich mit ihnen zusammenleben. Mit Abe Rifkin, der eine Affäre mit der Tochter seines Kompagnons beginnt, mit Josh, dessen Mutter ein Verhältnis mit dem Leiter ihres Schreibkurses hat und dessen Vater sich nicht so recht dagegen zur Wehr setzt. Josh selbst hat sich während seines ersten Unisemesters einem Mädchen und der Religion genähert und kann weder das Verhalten seiner Mutter noch das seines Vaters gutheißen. In der Erzählung »Mondlandung« begegnet man Charlie und Dave, zwei ungleichen Brüdern, die nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern deren Haushalt auflösen und ihr eigenes Verhältnis neu ordnen müssen. Glaube und Versuchung, Liebe und Familie sind die Themen in Stuart Nadlers Erzählungen – und wie schwer diese im wahren Leben unter einen Hut zu bringen sind, zeigt er in kristallklarer Sprache und mit einer guten Portion Melancholie und Humor.

Welche Rolle spielt die Familie, wenn es hart auf hart kommt?»Die Unzertrennlichen« ist ein hochkomischer, exzellent geschriebener Roman über drei Frauen, Tochter, Mutter und Großmutter, die immer weiter im Chaos ihres Lebens versinken.Henrietta Olyphant hat gerade ihren Mann und fast all ihr Geld verloren, da droht eine weitere Katastrophe: Ihr Buch »Die Unzertrennlichen« soll wiederaufgelegt werden. Viele Dekaden sind vergangen, in denen sie keinen Gedanken an ihren Bestseller wider Willen über die Sexualität der Frau verschwenden musste. Das umstrittene »Handbuch für Besucher des weiblichen Körpers« mit sehr expliziten Zeichnungen von Geschlechtsorganen sollte ein feministischer Beitrag zum prüden Leben im Amerika der Sechzigerjahre sein, leider wurde es millionenfach von verklemmten Hausfrauen und lüsternen Männern gekauft und von der Kritik übel verschmäht. Oona, Henriettas Tochter und Chirurgin, ist gerade wieder nach Hause gezogen, nachdem sie sich von ihrem dauerbekifften Mann getrennt und jetzt eine Affäre mit dem Paartherapeuten angefangen hat. Ihre Tochter Lydia wiederum wird von der Schule suspendiert, weil ein Nacktfoto von ihr unfreiwillig die Runde gemacht hat. Die drei Olyphantfrauen müssen sich zusammen ihren Dämonen stellen, das Chaos wird allerdings immer größer statt kleiner. »Die Unzertrennlichen« stellt auf hochkomische Art die Frage, ob man sein Leben wirklich planen kann und welche Rolle die Familie spielt, wenn es hart auf hart kommt.