In Dublin, a woman married to an impotent man wants a child so badly she plays make believe, telling a neighbor she is pregnant. The husband hears and is overjoyed. Now what? Irene kidnaps a baby and the novel centers on what happens when the snatch is discovered four years later.
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Mary Morrissy es una autora irlandesa celebrada por sus perspicaces obras literarias, que a menudo profundizan en las complejidades de la psique humana y las dinámicas interpersonales. Su estilo se caracteriza por una prosa precisa y una habilidad para crear personajes ricos y complejos que resuenan profundamente con los lectores. Morrissy explora temas de identidad, memoria y la búsqueda de significado en el mundo moderno, manteniendo su escritura una notable sensibilidad y profundidad. Sus contribuciones se consideran una voz importante en la literatura irlandesa contemporánea.
The Pretender
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Berlin 1920. A young woman throws herself from a bridge into the Landwehr Canal, intent on suicide. But she is saved. She refuses to give any clue to her identity. She is literally a nobody. After two years of silence, she claims to be Anastasia, the fourth daughter of the Tsar of Russia. For over sixty years she lives with the firm conviction that she is, indeed, a grand duchess. It is only after her death in 1984 that DNA tests establish that the woman could not have been a Romanov. Who, then, was this mysterious woman, who lived a lie and convinced so many others of her fictional identity? And what of her own identity that she drowned that winter's night in Berlin? In The Pretender, Mary Morrissy writes the prequel to the Anastasia myth. She creates a fictional history for Franziska Schanzkowska, the Polish factory worker who so successfully donned the mantle of the doomed princess. From the few facts that are known, Morrissy fashions the biography of a nobody - an impoverished Polish childhood, an adolescence set against the First World war and the ruinous humiliation of Germany in defeat, a young adulthood blighted by violence, trauma and loss. The Pretender is a nesting doll of a book. Morrissy unspools the multiple intricacies of female identity and explores the strategies that women employ to survive in a calamitous world. Was Franziska Schanzkowska a fraud? Was she de
Fräulein Unbekannt
- 318 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Wer war das Fräulein Unbekannt, das 1920 aus dem Berliner Landwehrkanal gefischt wurde? Die Zarentochter Anastasia, die einzig Überlebende des Attentats auf die Romanows 1917? Oder die polnische Munitionsarbeiterin Franziska Schanzkowski, die ein Geheimnis zu verbergen scheint und sich in einen »möblierten Herrn« verliebt, der jedoch bald in den Krieg zieht? Mary Morrissy erzählt eindringlich vom Überlebenswillen einer Frau in einer zerstörerischen Zeit.
Paarle's moeder
- 216 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
De ontvoering van haar dochtertje heeft op het leven van een jonge moeder en haar kind een grote invloed, maar ook op het leven van de ontvoerster.