Sylvia Petter Libros

Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Fiction Sylvia Petter s collection flings the reader across the globe in its bold exploration of love, death, passion, relationship, and family. Echoing her own life experience, Sylvia Petter s award-winning stories explore universal themes through lenses of distance and separation. Back Burning spans continents, zooming in on snapshots of relationships from childhood and young love, through adulthood and career, political pursuits and history, to awakening in old age. Powerful stories of loss and rejuvenation emerge from this patchwork in unexpected ways. I want to tell them about timing, how a new fire can burn once an old one has died. I also want to tell them about back burning and fires that are lit to quell bigger flames.

How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth?During a long flight from Europe to Sydney to bury her mother, Australian expat Katrina Klain reviews the fading narrative of her family and her long quest to understand her true origins. This has already taken her to Vienna, where she met her Uncle Harald who embezzled the Austrian government out of millions, as well as Carl Sokorny, the godson of one of Hitler's most notorious generals, and then on to Geneva and Madrid. Not only were her family caught up with the Nazis, they also turn out to have been involved with the Stasi in post-war East Germany.It's a lot to come to terms with, but there are more revelations in store. After the funeral, she finds letters that reveal a dramatic twist which means her own identity must take a radical shift. Will these discoveries enable her to complete the puzzle of her family's past?Inspired by her own life story, Sylvia Petter's richly imaginative debut novel, set between the new world and the old, is a powerful tale about making peace with the past and finding closure for the future.

Erzählungen, die zum Träumen und Nachdenken einladen Kommen Sie mit auf eine multikulturelle Reise der Emotionen, vom alten Kontinent zum neueren und zurück. Durch Linsen der Trennung und Entfernung führen die Erzählungen Sylvia Petters durch Einsichten über ein Leben der Beziehungen, von der Jugend und dem Erwachsensein bis zu einem Erwachen im Alter. Vielleicht finden Sie sich in den Einsichten der dargestellten Figuren wieder – Einsichten über Liebe, Leidenschaft, geschichtliche und politische Wahrnehmungen, Karriere und Tod. Erforschen Sie Abzweigungen in die freie und unvorhersehbare Welt der Phantasie der Mitspielenden. Erleben Sie Überraschungen beim Lesen dieser im englischsprachigen Raum preisgekrönten Erzählungen. Die Reise ist es wert.