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Cuando Edith Hope, escritora de novelas románticas, tiene que abandonar Gran Bretaña por motivos sentimentales, se dirige a Suiza, a un hotel a la orilla del Lago Leman, cerca de Ginebra. Edith va a permanecer en el Hotel du Lac el tiempo suficiente para que sus amigos de Inglaterra olviden el episodio amoroso del que fue protagonista, episodio que causó su declive social y que ella irá reviviendo y desvelando al lector, a pesar de las trampas y los obstáculos que una memoria reacia al recuerdo acostumbra a interponer. Hotel du Lac es una novela en la que se traza, a través de las actitudes y comportamientos de los personajes, un fresco del amor romántico y la condición femenina.

In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate new novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. The return of exiles is transforming the city, and through the lives of Didymus Maqoma, his wife Sibongile, and their lovely daughter who cannot even speak her parents' African language, the reader experiences the strange passions, reversals, and dangers that accompany new-won access to power. All must change: Didymus, once a major actor in the resistance, making way for Sibongile's emergence as a political figure; Vera, working through the consequences of a lifetime's commitments to a new kind of relationship with a new man of the times, Zeph Rapulana.

This biography of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright is a monumental work of scholarship, arguably the most significant book about Beckett ever published. It offers a compelling narrative of Beckett's life, from his upper-middle-class Irish childhood to his early years in Paris and his complex relationship with Joyce. The book reveals Beckett's psychological struggles through over 300 previously unknown letters to confidant Thomas McGreevy, his heroic service with the French Resistance, and the extraordinary post-World War II period that birthed his first masterpieces. It chronicles his tumultuous family relationships, the psychosomatic illnesses that hindered his writing, and the autobiographical elements in his work. The narrative also delves into his connections with publishers, actors, directors, and friends, painting a portrait of Beckett as the poet of despair and an enigmatic artist who transformed modern man's destitution into exaltation. Despite Beckett's initial refusal to authorize the book, Deirdre Bair conducted extensive research across multiple countries and interviewed countless individuals, resulting in a literary biography that meets the highest scholarly standards. Bair, an accomplished academic, has taught at prestigious institutions and continues to contribute to the field of literature.