Hannah Tinti Books

A zoo worker, cautiously washing down Marysue the elephant, thinks of the strange, grim stories his co-workers have told him about their lives. Giraffes in another zoo demand better living conditions and stage a mock group suicide to attract public notice. A girl escapes her repressive finishing school by running off with her lover to the African jungle - but takes longer to give the slip to the private detectives hired by her father. Hannah Tinti's debut collection combines the virtues of traditional story-telling with utter freshness and modernity. Snake or dog, buffalo or turkey, the animals in her brilliant, darkly comic stories are never cute, as they hold up a disturbing mirror to the human beings around them.

Set in the wild, seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so brilliantly-written, so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end. Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn't know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family - of a life - will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren's astonishment, the handsome, charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren's life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope. That one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family, at last. But whether Benjamin is to be trusted is another story

Als Samuel Hawley mit seiner Tochter Loo nach Olympus zieht, soll das kleine Küstenstädtchen ihr Zuhause werden. Doch auch nachdem das ständige Umherziehen ein Ende hat, finden die beiden nur schwer Anschluss. Die Geheimnisse um Hawleys Vergangenheit machen die Einwohner von Olympus misstrauisch. Wieder sind Vater und Tochter sich gegenseitig die einzigen Freunde. Als Loo ihrer Großmutter begegnet, erfährt sie, dass hinter dem Unfalltod ihrer Mutter mehr steckt, als sie bisher glaubte. Loo wird eigenständiger, verliebt sich zum ersten Mal und sucht selbst nach Antworten. Hawleys Narben zeugen von seiner geheimnisvollen Geschichte, lange bevor es Loo gab. Und so sehr er auch versucht, seine Tochter zu schützen: Sein früheres Leben als Krimineller holt die beiden wieder ein.