In this novel, a young American who has chosen to exile himself in contemporary Amsterdam, is trying to come to terms with the premature death of his widely admired elder brother. Other work by the author includes "Pictures from the Water Trade" and ...
In a contemporary love story set in Munich that echoes the Greek myth of Persephone, a woman abandons her husband for six months to be with her lover, creating chaos that is only resolved with her return...
Born on a ferry, orphaned two years later, Daniel Serraz free-floats into a career in insurance and marriage to Japanese interpreter Kozue. But ominous truths are resurfacing, bound up with the legend of his whale-hunting great grandfather and his pa...
Spanning the decades from World War II to the Yugoslav conflict, Ella Morris is the story of a remarkable woman, and of the toll history takes on individual lives. Born in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, Ella Andrzejewski escapes Soviet-...