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Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Melanie Gideon, an American writer known for her humorous novels about family dynamics, dissects the monotony of marriage in the age of social media in The Marriage Trap (2012).
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
Knjiga Gladno brdo (1943.) je saga o pet generacija anglo-irske obitelji Brodrick, vlasnika dvorca Clonmere u Irskoj. Du Maurier, majstorica gotičke proze, spaja folklor, prokletstvo i društvene promjene, pokazujući kako pohlepa uništava nasljednike.
Greškom oteta i vezana uz stropnu gredu Sam Jones pokušava se prisjetiti svoje posebne ljubavne avanture. Bolni udarci, uz prirođen humor, potaknuti će junakinju da sav svoj duševni mir usmjeri na rješavanje životnih problema.