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Janette Turner Hospital

    Janette Turner Hospital is a celebrated author whose works delve into the complexities of human relationships and moral ambiguities with keen psychological insight. Her prose is characterized by a rich, lyrical style, adept at capturing the subtle nuances of the human experience. Often setting her narratives in diverse international locales that echo her own journeys, Hospital explores themes of identity, memory, and the search for belonging. Her writing is lauded for its literary merit and its capacity to provoke deep contemplation.

    Janette Turner Hospital
    Orpheus Lost
    Charades
    Due Preparations for the Plague
    Oyster
    The Last Magician
    The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
    • Orpheus Lost

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Love can take you to the darkest places ... Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers. But Mishka is not all he seems - and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was. In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth - and the man she loves. Love can take you to the darkest places ... Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers. But Mishka is not all he seems - and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was. In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth - and the man she loves.

      Orpheus Lost2008
    • Due Preparations for the Plague

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris--New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital probes with astonishing acuity the worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.

      Due Preparations for the Plague2004
      3.8
    • Výbor povídek kanadsko-australské autorky, která patří mezi nejznámější současné žijící prozaičky píšící v angličtině. V jejích povídkách se odrážejí různorodá prostředí, kterými prošla. Zabývá se tématy charakteristickými pro konec 20. století: ztráta pevných bodů a životních konstant, překračování či smazávání hranic dělících společenské třídy, rasy a kultury.

      Izobary1999
    • Izobary: Povídky

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Výbor povídek kanadsko-australské autorky, která patří mezi nejznámější současné žijící prozaičky píšící v angličtině. V jejích povídkách se odrážejí různorodá prostředí, kterými prošla. Zabývá se tématy charakteristickými pro konec 20. století: ztráta pevných bodů a životních konstant, překračování či smazávání hranic dělících společenské třídy, rasy a kultury.

      Izobary: Povídky1999
      4.0
    • Oyster

      • 453 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      This story of a cult messiah, Oyster, is set in an outback opal mining town in Queensland. The novel attempts to explore the clash of extreme cultural differences - the nature of evil, the relationship between good and evil and the question of individual accountability.

      Oyster1997
      3.8
    • Nach 12 Jahren in einer kleinen kanadischen Universitätsstadt ist Juliet voller Erwartung, als ihr Mann einen Ruf an eine südindische Universität erhält. Die patriarchalische Gesellschaftsordnung und enge Moralvorstellungen werden jedoch zur Belastungsprobe für ihre Ehe.

      Auf einer indischen Schaukel1994
    • Four people, scattered by time and geography, are pulled back into close proximity in midlife, unable to escape the childhood trauma that binds them.

      The Last Magician1992
      3.9
    • The Tiger in the Tiger Pit

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The tyrannical Edward, raging against the indignities of old age, and Elizabeth, his charming and forgiving wife, await the arrival of their children: Jason, a suave analyst who privately seethes with hatred for his father; Victoria, perpetually caught in an adolescence various institutions have been unable to unlock, and Emily, a concern violinist who skips continents rather than face stability, and who is bringing her young son to see his grandfather for the first time. The scene is set for their anniversary reunion. Here Janette Turner Hospital unravels the skeins of family life - its hostilities, explosive secrets and its constricting yet enduring love. The result is one of the most haunting and assured explorations of the family in contemporary fiction.

      The Tiger in the Tiger Pit1991
      4.4
    • Charades

      • 301 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on the other side of the world, Charade Ryan sorts through story and counter-story for her father, the legendary Nicholas, and the truth about her origins.

      Charades1990
      2.6