Elizabeth Graver Books

July 2, 1964

Elizabeth Graver crafts narratives that delve into the passage of time, familial bonds, and the elusive nature of memory. Her novels, often spanning decades, are distinguished by meticulous observation and profound psychological insight. She employs a rich, evocative prose style to render intricate portraits of her characters and their worlds. Graver's work explores how the past shapes the present and how identities evolve amidst life's transformations.

Kantika
304 pages
11 hours of reading
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A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way—a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge—her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.
Die Honigdiebin
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Nachdem ihre 11-jährige Tochter mehrere Ladendiebstähle begangen hat, zieht Miriam mit ihr um in eine kleine Stadt des Staates New York. - Lebensnah und menschlich geschriebener Roman über Sommer- und Kindheitsträume, Freundschaft und Mutter-Tochter-Beziehungen.
Die Sommer der Porters
Roman
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Seit Generationen verbringt die wohlhabenden Familie Porter ihre Sommer auf Ashaunt, einer felsigen Halbinsel vor der Küste Neuenglands. Es ist ein Ort, an dem man die Zeit vergisst und die Tage unbeschwert und endlos scheinen. Doch die Wirren der Zeit machen selbst vor dem Paradies nicht halt: Als im Sommer 1942 eine Militärstation auf der Halbinsel errichtet wird, kommt es im Leben der Porters zu einem Einschnitt, der noch ihre Kinder und Kindeskinder beschäftigen wird.

Kantika

Die Honigdiebin

Die Sommer der Porters