Dario Villa Books

Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California let heartbroken after the sudden death of his love Jim. With devastating clarity and humour Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life, as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loss and alienation

For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.