Grete Osterwald Books

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and Bill's--an intricate constellation of attachments that includes the two men, their wives, Erica and Violet, and their sons, Matthew and Mark.The families live in the same New York apartment building, rent a house together in the summers and keep up a lively exchange of ideas about life and art, but the bonds between them are tested, first by sudden tragedy, and then by a monstrous duplicity that slowly comes to the surface. A beautifully written novel that combines the intimacy of a family saga with the suspense of a thriller, What I Loved is a deeply moving story about art, love, loss, and betrayal.

'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence. Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents.

"Es gibt schöne Dinge auf der Welt und es gibt traurige Dinge, und wenn sie zusammenkommen, bilden sie einen Stern." In Mathildas Welt gibt es ganz schön viele traurige Dinge, zum Beispiel, dass ihre große Schwester Helene tot ist. Es gibt aber auch schöne Dinge, wie die Freundschaft zu der reizenden Anna oder die blauen Haare ihres Nachbarn Kevin. Mit ungewöhnlich viel Mut stellt sich Mathilda dieser Welt und macht sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit über den Tod ihrer Schwester. Sie findet etwas, das jeder von uns in sich finden kann: Einen Stern, der tief in unserem Inneren leuchtet.