Anneke Bok Book order (chronological)

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth.

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author ofFreedom. Purity Tyler, known to all as Pip, is an outspoken, forthright young woman struggling to make a life for herself. She sleeps in an rickety commune in Oakland. She's in love with an unavailable older man and is saddled with staggering college debt. She has a crazy mother and doesn't know who her father is. A chance encounter leads her to an internship in South America with the world-famous Sunlight Project, the president of which is Andreas Wolf, a charismatic genius who grew up privileged but disaffected in the German Democratic Republic. Like numerous women before her, she becomes obsessed with Andreas, and they have an intense, unsettling relationship. Eventually, he finds her work back in the United States. What lies underneath is a wild tale of hidden identities, secret wealth, neurotic fidelity, sociopathy, and murder. The truth of Pip's parentage lies at the centre of this maelstrom, but before it is resolved Franzen takes us from the rain-drenched forests of northern California, to paranoid East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, to the paradisiacal mountain valleys of Bolivia, exposing us to the vagaries of radical politics, the problematic seductions of the internet, and the no-holds-barred war between the sexes. Featuring an unforgettable cast of inimitable Franzenian characters, Purity is deeply troubling, richly moving, and hilarious.

Stephen Lawrence Sutler heeft drie problemen: 1. Er is 53 miljoen dollar verdwenen. 2. Hij moet vluchten. 3. Hij is niet Stephen Lawrence Sutler . ‘Diep onder de indruk.’ – The Telegraph (****) ‘De Man Booker Prize-nominatie voor dit digitaal verrijkte boek over de louche wereld van civiele aanbestedingen in het naoorlogse Irak is meer dan verdiend.’ – The Guardian

The cliff loomed over her and though her eyes were cast downwards she felt its presence. Even inside the cabin she could feel it, as though the cliffâ€TMs shadow was so dense it soaked through the wood. Nothing but shadow land, her mother had told Laurel, and claimed there wasnâ€TMt a gloomier place in the whole Blue Ridge. Siblings Laurel and Hank Shelton live in the cove, fruitless farmland nestled in perpetual shadow, land locals say is cursed. Hank has returned an amputee from World War I. He soon falls in love but his new bride refuses to live in the cove. Hank must choose between his bride and abandoning his socially outcast sister in the loneliest place imaginable. Laurelâ€TMs fate is altered forever when she discovers an injured man on their land. The stranger slowly heals and insinuates himself in to life in the cove—bringing Laurel happiness, even love. But when Laurel stumbles on the strangerâ€TMs true identity, she realises they are in real danger, beyond any kind of mythical curse. And the ramifications are breathtaking. This atmospheric novel set in Appalachia during World War I, is both beautiful and dark, full of love, betrayal and fear.

Par un beau jour de juillet, Becca et John célèbrent leur mariage. Leur bonheur sera de courte durée : peu après, ils meurent dans un accident de voiture. Comment leurs deux familles brisées et réunies dans ce drame affronteront-elles cette épreuve ? Rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant : des unions vont se défaire, d’autres, surprenantes et belles, vont se nouer... [babelio.com]

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts.

Susan Baker and her son live in a remote Canadian town after their lives had been shattered by the accidental death of her husband - A complex drama unfolds after the return of Michael Somers after a prolonged absence_

The story follows Samson Greene, a New York English professor who finds himself disoriented in the desert after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor that erased his memories since age twelve. Struggling to reconnect with his life, including his wife Anna and friends, he receives a call from a charismatic doctor in California about a groundbreaking brain research experiment. This opportunity sparks a journey filled with adventure and self-discovery, exploring themes of loneliness and the essence of human connection, all conveyed with Nicole Krauss's signature poignant humor.

Considered by many to be the finest Irish writer now working in prose, John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun vividly brings to life a whole world and its people with insight and humour and deep sympathy. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. By the novel's close we feel that we have been introduced, with deceptive simplicity, to a complete representation of existence - an enclosed world has been transformed into an Everywhere. 'It is a simple and ordinary story, calmly, wryly crafted with subtle detail - and therein lies McGahern's genius. As sharply, brilliantly observed as any he has written . . . McGahern, a supreme chronicler of the ordinary . . . has created a novel that lives and breathes as convincingly as the characters who inhabit it.' Irish Times

Richard, backpacking around the globe in the great tradition of cheap travel, finds himself bedding down in Khao San Road, Bangkok. But his chance to rest briefly is suddenly and irrevocably destroyed when a perfect stranger called Mister Duck is killed in the room next door. Mister Duck had a secret - now it's Richard's. Armed with a map - and a name of great mystery and legend that possesses a simple majesty: Beach - our protagonist goes in search of a traveller's dream, a place where there are lots of drugs and a tolerant society that works together to maintain a life of inner peace and tranquillity. Only a select few will make it to the blissful seclusion of the Beach (Mister Duck, for one, has died) but in the great tradition of travelling bravado, or sheer stupidity, Richard decides to give it a go . . .

Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon.

The last person Landon thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. Landon would never have dreamed of asking her out, but a twist of fate threw them together when he found himself without a partner for the school dance. In the months that followed, Landon discovered truths that most people take a lifetime to learn - about the joy of giving, the pain of loss and, most of all, the transforming nature of love. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood . . .

"De haciënda" is de fascinerende en exotische autobiografie van Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, die op zestienjarige leeftijd op straat in Londen de Zuid-Amerikaanse aristocraat en bankrover Don Jaime Terán tegenkwam, met wie ze trouwde en door Italië trok. Later volgde zij haar echtgenoot naar zijn familielandgoed, een haciënda diep in de Venezolaanse Andes. Lisa, die alleen een soort bandieten-Spaans vol krachttermen beheerste, was in eerste instantie te verlegen om haar mond open te doen in het gezelschap van haar schoonfamilie. Die veronderstelde prompt dat ze doofstom was, waardoor Lisa goed kon volgen wat ze van haar vonden. "De haciënda" vertelt hoe Lisa er het beste van maakte, hoe ze La Dona werd en het landgoed bestierde, haar eerste kind kreeg, hoe ze door eenzaamheid en heimwee gedreven haar schrijverscarrière begon, hoe haar echtgenoot steeds geesteszieker en gewelddadiger werd, en hoe ze zeven jaar lang tussen la gente leefde, ongeletterde mensen die volgens haar eigen zeggen 'de grootste invloed op mijn leven en werk hebben uitgeoefend.

Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.

A humorous, uninhibited first novel. Jeremy Acidophilus is recruited as a model by Lady Henrietta, who paints nude men, and is seduced by her precocious 11-year-old daughter. Horrified by what he's done, Jeremy confesses to Henrietta, and sets off a triangle of sexual obsession.