Kim van Alkemade Orden de los libros
Esta autora explora complejas historias familiares e identidades culturales. Su estilo literario se caracteriza por una profunda inmersión en la psicología de los personajes y un lenguaje rico y evocador. Las obras de la autora a menudo examinan temas de migración, pérdida y la búsqueda de raíces en un mundo cambiante. Su escritura ofrece una perspectiva única sobre la experiencia inmigrante y las vidas de sus descendientes.
- 2023
- 2018
Bachelor Girl
- 405 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
From the first paragraphs, BACHELOR GIRL plunges the reader deep into life during the Jazz Age... [T]he mystery of Ruppert's largesse and the slow revealing of other secrets and confessions will keep readers up all night looking for answers alongside Winthrope and Kramer. Booklist, starred review
- 2017
Huérfana # 8
- 416 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
Kim van Alkemade has moxie. In her provocative novel, family is saturated with betrayal, care is interrupted by ambition and desire, and the past is intimately explored, invoking the abandoned child in all of us. Orphan # 8 brims with complicated passions and pitch-perfect historical details. A riveting, memorable debut. -Catherine Zobal Dent, author of Unfinished Stories of Girls
- 2015
In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power she holds over the helpless doctor, Rachel embarks on a dangerous experiment of her own design. Before the night shift ends, Rachel will be forced to choose between forgiveness and revenge