Long Island
Long Island is the much-anticipated sequel to Irish Laureate Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel, Brooklyn. Like its predecessor, the sequel delves into the complex psychological motivations of its protagonist...
Literature - Realistic
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a novel written through letters, which narrates the correspondence of Juliet, a young London writer, with the members of a literary society in Guernsey...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Set in 2003 NYC, this is the story of an intelligent (perhaps autistic) nine-year-old boy, who lost his much-loved father in the 9/11 attacks. He is trying to come to grips with his loss and suffers from...
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Talking about Stefan Zweig (Vienna, 1881 – Petrópolis, 1942) means talking about a witness of his time. A cosmopolitan author longing for a Europe he saw unraveling, he published an extensive body of work...
Great Expectations
Philip Pirrip ('Pip') is a small village boy being brought up by the blacksmith Joe Gargery. He is told to go and visit the house of Miss Havisham, whose mind had been badly affected by being jilted at the...
As the Crow Flies
Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies (1990) unfolds in London, beginning in the era before World War I, when the United Kingdom was at the height of its imperial power. The story follows Charlie Trumper, a...
I am Rembrandt's daugther
This is a work of fiction based on the real person of Cornelia, the illegitimate daughter of Rembrandt Van Rijn by his common-law-wife, Hendricke Stoffels. The author was inspired by two paintings of...
China dolls
The story unfolds in San Francisco (California) between 1938 and 1948, beginning amidst the lingering effects of the Great Depression of 1929 and extending past the Second World War into the late twentieth...
The Age of Innocence
The story is set in New York, over several years of the 1870s; at the end, the author makes a thirty-year jump in time that is interesting, to find out what has become of the different characters and also...
The Dogs Bark
The title is a reference to Don Quixote's telling to Sancho “ they bark, therefore we ride”, which has passed into popular...