Kim van Alkemade Livres
Cette autrice explore des histoires familiales complexes et des identités culturelles. Son style littéraire se caractérise par une immersion profonde dans la psychologie des personnages et un langage riche et évocateur. Les œuvres de l'autrice examinent souvent des thèmes tels que la migration, la perte et la recherche des racines dans un monde en mutation. Son écriture offre une perspective unique sur l'expérience de l'immigrant et la vie de leurs descendants.
In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power she holds over the helpless doctor, Rachel embarks on a dangerous experiment of her own design. Before the night shift ends, Rachel will be forced to choose between forgiveness and revenge
Bachelor Girl
- 405pages
- 15 heures de lecture
From the first paragraphs, BACHELOR GIRL plunges the reader deep into life during the Jazz Age... [T]he mystery of Ruppert's largesse and the slow revealing of other secrets and confessions will keep readers up all night looking for answers alongside Winthrope and Kramer. Booklist, starred review
Huérfana # 8
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Kim van Alkemade has moxie. In her provocative novel, family is saturated with betrayal, care is interrupted by ambition and desire, and the past is intimately explored, invoking the abandoned child in all of us. Orphan # 8 brims with complicated passions and pitch-perfect historical details. A riveting, memorable debut. -Catherine Zobal Dent, author of Unfinished Stories of Girls