Anita Brookner: 32 books

Frances Hinton lavora nella biblioteca di un istituto di scienze mediche. Ne cura l’archivio fotografico, una bizzarra enciclopedia illustrata di ogni sorta di malattia, insieme con l’amica Olivia. Un lavoro di routine, che Frances svolge con lo stesso spartano rigore con cui affronta il resto...

In una calda, umida e sensuale estate alla fine degli anni Cinquanta, Maud Gonthier, timida diciottenne dalla bellezza austera, viso dorato, capelli biondi e occhi dalle lunghe ciglia privi di trucco, arriva nella casa di campagna della zia per trascorrere le vacanze estive. Lì incontra le due figure...

Paul Sturgis è un ex funzionario di banca che vive solo in un piccolo, buio appartamento che un tempo gli era parso un pied-à-terre di lusso. Passeggia da solo e mangia da solo, scambiando convenevoli che non peccano mai di invadenza, improntati come sono alla più rigida cortesia, con le anime...

The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love.         The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence....

Dat Anita Brookners roman Hotel du Lac in 1984 de belangwekkende Man Booker Prize won, veroorzaakte literaire commotie. Want hoe kon juist dit boek, dat door velen werd afgedaan als een 'vrouwenromannetje', zo'n prestigieuze prijs winnen? De vooringenomen snobs hadden ongelijk: in werkelijkheid was...

Edith Hope è una scrittrice di narrativa romantica che ha sempre cercato di preservare la sua personalità schiva e, a un tempo, fiduciosa. Possiede una casa, paga le tasse, consegna i suoi dattiloscritti molto prima della scadenza, non si vanta del suo rango. È, insomma, una donna seria e con una...

In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her...

In her superbly accomplished novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our most profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure. From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is...

In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory. Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, living a life in contemporary London that...

At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice? As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through...

The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth. Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers -- so when she is prevailed...

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant...

Londra, fine anni Settanta. A ventisei anni, Emma Roberts è una giovane donna che vive un fragile equilibrio tra la sofferenza e il piacere che la solitudine le procura. Tratta la vita proprio come il giardino oggetto dei suoi studi: taglia, cura, accorcia le sue emozioni e i desideri per realizzare...

At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic relationship with her mother, but also shedding her inherited...