An exploration into the impact of the Stalinist purges on the lives, families and contacts of members of the British Communist Party.
Alison MacLeod Livres
Alison MacLeod est une romancière et nouvelliste accomplie dont l'œuvre explore les complexités des relations humaines et de la psyché. Elle possède une perspicacité aiguë dans les dynamiques interpersonnelles, employant magistralement le langage pour créer des mondes riches et atmosphériques qui captivent les lecteurs et laissent une impression durable. Les histoires de MacLeod sont célébrées pour leur exploration thématique qui invite à la réflexion et leurs personnages méticuleusement développés, obtenant l'acclamation de la critique et l'appréciation des lecteurs.
Unexploded
- 339pages
- 12 heures de lecture
On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners.
The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. 'A hugely daring, intrigue-packed, decade-jumping doorstopper that teasingly blends fiction and actuality with wit and panache' DAILY MAIL 'A triumph ... it will conquer your heart' ELIF SHAFAK 'Glorious and arresting ... A widescreen novel' OBSERVER 'A passionate, epic joy' MADELINE MILLER 'Powerful, moving, brilliant ... An utterly captivating read' ELIZABETH GILBERT ________________________ D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war, where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman in an Italian courtyard, her chestnut hair red with summer. Jacqueline and her husband have already been marked out for greatness. Passing through New York, she slips into a hearing where a book, not a man, is brought to trial. A young woman and a young man meet amid the restricted section of a famous library, and make love. Scattered and blown by the winds of history, their stories are bound together, and brought before the jury. On both sides of the Atlantic, society is asking, and continues to ask: is it obscenity - or is it tenderness? 'Gorgeously written and meticulously conceived' DAVID LEAVITT
Like a piece of finely wrought ironwork, uncommonly delicate but at the same time astonishingly strong and tensile . . . a novel of staggering elegance and beauty Independent
Die junge Anna verlässt wegen Schwierigkeiten mit Indianern ihre neue Heimat Amerika mit dem Segelschiff in Richtung Westindische Inseln. Dort macht sie die Bekanntschaft mit dem berüchtigten Piratenkapitän Jack Rackham, mit dem sie zahlreiche Seeabenteuer als Piratin in der Karibik erlebt.
