I want to tell you how great my life was. How I lived without regrets. With constant laughter. Without any tears. I want to tell you how I lived each moment to the fullest. How each breath I took was fresh and full of life. With eagerness. Without any fear.
I want to tell you all of that, but then my story would be masked with lies and not worth telling.
My life didn’t start until I left my past. And I left everything. My mother, my friends, my name. Yes, my name. I will not tell you what my name used to be because it is irrelevant. That person never really existed.
My new name, the name everyone knows me by is Erin Lewis.
Fours years after leaving her hometown in Alabama, Erin is finally happy with where her life has led her. For the first time, she feels secure in her environment and the relationships she has formed. Before she can fully settle into her new life, her past begins to haunt her present. Angry and scared she pushes away the people who matter most to her, breaking the very foundation she has built her new life on. Views: 22
Now a Major Motion Picture, Lore (previously published as The Dark Room) is a powerful, suspenseful work of fiction that examines the legacy of World War II on ordinary Germans -- both immediate survivors of the war and future generations. A Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In the spring of 1945, weeks after the defeat of Germany, a teenage girl called Lore -- whose parents have been arrested by the Allies -- sets off with her four younger siblings on a 500-mile illegal trek through the four zones of occupation in search of their grandmother. This central episode of a novel in three parts is the basis for a new film.ReviewWINNER – Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First FictionFINALIST 2001 – Booker PrizeLONGLISTED 2002 – Orange Prize for FictionA Globe and Mail Best Book “[S]tunning…. Seiffert writes with such extraordinary elegance that it takes your breath away. Her voice stings with aching precision yet possesses a glorious innocence that can trouble the simplest of words. The effortlessness of her language is remarkable given the complexity of perspectives she entertains…. The tension of being implicitly involved in a history one did not necessarily condone is stretched agonizingly taut through Seiffert’s quiet exploration of the subtle complexities of competing perceptions within a self, within a family, within a nation.” —Camilla Gibb, The Globe and Mail“It’s a painful subject and no less so in Seiffert’s handling of it. The reading itself, though, is easy. The airiness of Seiffert’s prose, her deft management of the present tense, makes the narrator—even the page—disappear.” —Toronto Star“[An] ambitious and powerful first novel…. Seiffert writes lean, clean prose. Deftly, she hangs large ideas on the vivid private experiences of her principal characters.” —The New York Times“[A] page-turner…. Not only does [Seiffert] fully address one of the most dismal episodes in human history, but she does so with a nuanced approach that encourages insight even as it prompts debate.” —The Vancouver Sun“Exquisite…. [A] beautifully written, elegant and emotional trilogy of theme-linked chronicles…Seiffert sifts the layers of guilt and denial which permeated German society at the end of the Second World War, layers that began to shift and change with succeeding generations.” —The London Free Press“[M]agnetic.… Gripping storytelling of tremendous force.” —Edmonton JournalAbout the AuthorBorn in Oxford in 1971 to German and Australian parents, RACHEL SEIFFERT is the author of The Dark Room, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, and was winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for First Fiction and a Betty Trask Award in 2002. In 2003, she was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2004, she published Field Study, a collection of short stories, one of which received a David T. K. Wong award from PEN International. Her novel Afterwards was long-listed for the Orange Prize and, in 2011, she received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into ten languages. After living in Scotland and Germany, she now resides in London, and divides her time between teaching and writing. Views: 22
m/m romance, Western - A cowboy and a rich boy find love as they figure out how to stay afloat on Cain Ranch. Views: 22
It's December and there is one foot of snow. Paul, the narrator, is driving east to the seaside in the imaginary company of his son, Euan, whose sixth birthday this would have been. As he drives, and later as he wanders the coast, Paul assembles in detail the fragments of a life that seemed to have ended with Euan's. In this beautifully modulated, heart-rending novel, Andrew Cowan fathoms the relationship between a parent and child, as seen through the eyes of a man struggling to come to terms with his life and losses as both father and son. All the more powerful for its delicacy and restraint, this is a novel that resonates in the mind long after the last page. Views: 22
There's blood in the heather and a murderer on the loose when Gently pays a quite visit to the Highlands of Scotland. Had Brenda Merryn not been such a stong-willed woman and had she not been so much in love with George Gently, driving all the way to Scotland for a holiday with Gently's sister and brother-in-law might have been a bit of a challenge. Spying on a heavily armed private army of nationalists, being held at gunpoint on the hillside, being held prisoner in a filthy outhouse and becoming involved in a murder would be unthinkable. For Gently, it's all in a day's work and his holiday is put on hold while he stalks a murderer in the mountains, with Brenda by his side. Views: 22
Altapasaeda, capital of the Castoval, is about to be besieged by its own
king - and where else would luckless, somewhat reformed thief Easie
Damasco be but trapped within the city's walls? Faced with a war they
can't win and a populace too busy fighting amongst itself to even try,
the Castovalian defenders are left with one desperate option. Far in the
northern lands of Shoan, rebels have set up the young prince Malekrin
as a figurehead in their own quest to throw off the king's tyrannical
rule. One way or another, the prince must be persuaded to join forces.
Once again, all hope lies with Damasco and his sticky-fingered approach
to problem solving, along with his long suffering partner, the gentle
giant Saltlick. But this time it's a human being that needs stealing,
with his own desires and opinions, and events only grow more complicated
as Damasco realises that he and the rebellious young prince have more
in common that either would admit.
Yet again, Easie Damasco finds himself roped into a desperate scheme to preserve the Castoval, And kidnapping the Prince seemed like such a good idea at the time… Views: 22
