Results for: books tagged ‘Alienation’
Any Which Way: David Watson
Stefan and Akin have known each other since childhood. But growing up, they grew apart. Now Akin lies dead. And Stefan walks through London's streets, trying to face up to ... More
Credible Witness: Timberlake Wertenbaker
A young man flees to a distant land and vanishes. His mother follows, certain she will find him, but in this unfamiliar place all certainties seem to crumble. In this ... More
Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Ted Hughes
'These nine pieces hang together, in my mind, as an accompaniment to my poems'. So wrote Ted Hughes in the foreword to this collection, taken from forty years of occasional ... More
The Frozen Waterfall: Gaye Hicyilmaz
Selda feels completely uprooted when she moves with her mother and sisters from Turkey to live with her father in Switzerland. At school, she can neither understand the language nor ... More
A Girl in a Car with a Man: Robert Evans
Stella's left the TV studio after her daily slot. Alex is up for a big night out. David has opted for a quiet evening in. But this is no ordinary ... More
The Missing: Andrew O'Hagan
In a brilliant merging of reportage, social history and memoir, Andrew O'Hagan clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in ... More
Something to Answer For: P. H. Newby
It was 1956 and he was in Port Said. About these two facts Townrow was reasonably certain. He had been summoned there, to Egypt, by the widow of his deceased ... More
The Story of a Marriage: Andrew Sean Greer
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband’s fragile health but also for her ... More
The Unconsoled: Kazuo Ishiguro
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by ... More
Walk the Blue Fields: Claire Keegan
Acclaimed stories observing an Ireland wrestling with its past, using this landscape to beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart. More
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