Julie Otsuka
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Language
Deutsch
Description
In ihrem Schwimmbad fühlen sie sich zu Hause, hier können sie bei ihren täglichen Bahnen ihre Sorgen hinter sich lassen: Designer, Nonnen, Hundesitter, Veganerinnen, Polizisten, Professorinnen, Schauspieler ...
Bis eines Tages ein Riss erscheint - am Beckengrund, aber auch im Gedächtnis von Alice, die genau wie die anderen hier im Schwimmen stets Trost und Halt gefunden hat. Während sie bald nur noch in bruchstückhaften Erinnerungen schwimmt,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post).
The swimmers are unknown...
The swimmers are unknown...
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Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle).
In eight unforgettable...
In eight unforgettable...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her...
6) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool. The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing...
Author
Publisher
Duomo ediciones es un sello de Antonio Vallardi Editore S.u.r.l
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los nadadores van y vienen en el agua. No saben que su rutina personal, privada y silenciosa, es una pieza fundamental de un engranaje invisible y siempre en equilibrio. De pronto, una grieta aparece en el fondo de la piscina. Expulsados del agua, arrojados a un mundo seco, deberán afrontar la realidad. Y también tendrá que hacerlo Alice, cuyos recuerdos se empañan cada vez más. El agua era la última defensa. Ahora su hija ha vuelto, para ser...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--