Ergebnis für "Exit" in Zeitgenössische Literatur

Man sagt, dass sich ein großer Autor daran erweist, wie er Szenen von Liebe und Tod, von Sex und vom Sterben schreiben kann. Philip Roth kann beides. Als Nathan Zuckerman in seinem Roman Ghost Writer 1979 erstmals auftrat, war er 23 Jahre alt. Nun ist Roth Alter Ego 71 und wird uns in seinem neuesten Werk Exit Ghost ein letztes Mal begegnen: Er wird uns fehlen.

In the summer of 2008, when an E. coli outbreak forces the nation's largest organic salad company to recall millions of products, three women's lives converge. Stella Gonzalez, a wash-line employee, is determined to provide a better future for her daughter. Ruth Malmquist is left fighting for her son's life and Jane Janhusen is asked to salvage the reputation of her boss and the company she loves. As federal investigators swoop in to pinpoint the source of the contamination, each woman faces her own struggle of how to deal with a sudden and unexpected tragedy.

From Johannes Lichtman comes a wisely comic debut novel about a teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Sweden, but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. You don’t have to be perfect to do good... Jonas Anderson wants a fresh start. He’s made plenty of bad...