Kitty Pouwels Books

The second powerful and heart-rending novel, set in 80s Glasgow, from Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize- and British Book Award-winning author of Shuggie Bain.[Bokinfo].

A young girl. A fateful key. A woman searching for the truth… Experience the novel that has touched millions. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard—their secret hiding place—and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty Years Later: Sarah’s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her own future. With more than five million copies in print and over two years on the New York Times bestseller list, Sarah’s Key has made its way into the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. Now, with this beautiful new hardcover edition, the gift of powerful storytelling can be shared with the ones you love.

Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf - in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.

Three German women are haunted by the past and their secrets, in the devastating aftermath of WWII. A mesmerising story of resistance, forgiveness and the complexity of the human heart.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.

Het boek begint wanneer 's ochtends vroeg de telefoon overgaat in het huis waar Susanna Sonnenberg samen met haar man en twee zonen woont. Het is haar tante, om te vertellen dat Susanna's moeder na een zwaar auto-ongeluk in coma ligt. Ze is in levensgevaar. Elke dochter zou in zo'n geval als een speer duizenden mijlen afleggen om naar haar moeder te gaan. Maar Susanna kan zich daar niet toe zetten. In haar moedige memoires legt ze uit waarom niet. Sonnenberg's moeder was geraffineerd, charismatisch en een dwangmatige leugenaar die iedereen verleidde die haar territorium betrad. Als kind zag Susanna haar moeders groeiende verslaving aan slaapmiddelen en cocaïne, leerde ze dat seks boven alles het gebied is om in uit te blinken en dat leugens de normaalste zaak van de wereld zijn. Sonnenberg beschrijft haar stormachtige zoektocht naar een eigen identiteit en het gevecht om een moeder en vrouw te worden die in staat is anderen te vertrouwen. Mijn onmogelijke moeder is aangrijpend, verbijsterend en adembenemend geschreven.

Howard Dawson, hoofdwetenschapper van de Amerikaanse basis op Antarctica, wordt vermoord. Net voor hij een rapport wilde opstellen over een onheilspellende gebeurtenis rondom de opwarming van de aarde die hij als ooggetuige in Antarctica meemaakte. Tomás Noronha, gespecialiseerd in cryptografie, wordt door Interpol gevraagd om de moord op te lossen. De moordenaar heeft een velletje papier naast zijn slachtoffer achtergelaten met daarop de cijfers '666' - het getal van het beest uit de Openbaring van Johannes. Het mysterie rond dit getal stort Tomás in een adembenemend avontuur dat hem dwingt het confronterendste moment van de mensheid te doorstaan: de Apocalyps.

Autobiografisch relaas van een alleenstaande Amerikaanse die onderzoekt of ze al dan niet moeder wil en kan worden.