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When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting in a former homeland of the new South Africa, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic, and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the meagre staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. The tired, ghostly town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier, a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And down at Mama's Place, the town's only watering hole, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid for his own dark reasons. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. "From the Hardcover edition."

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region.

La publicación de la segunda novela de Nicole Krauss confirmó su extraordinario talento, recibiendo elogios de críticos y escritores, incluido el Premio Nobel J. M. Coetzee. Con una mezcla de humor y ternura, la autora aborda el insondable tema del amor, la pérdida y la memoria, rindiendo homenaje a la literatura y su capacidad para transformar vidas. Leo Gursky, un cerrajero polaco jubilado en Nueva York, teme morir sin que nadie lo haya visto. Su vida da un giro cuando recibe un manuscrito perdido, acompañado de una carta enigmática, que lo lleva a revivir recuerdos de su juventud. Mientras tanto, Alma Singer, una quinceañera que enfrenta los dilemas de su edad, decide que es hora de que su madre supere la tristeza tras la muerte de su padre. Su búsqueda de un nuevo marido para su madre se entrelaza con la novela "La historia del amor", escrita en yidis y adquirida por su padre en Buenos Aires. Surgen interrogantes sobre el pasado de su padre, el autor del libro y un misterioso hombre que ha encargado su traducción al inglés. La narrativa se intensifica a medida que los caminos de Leo y Alma se cruzan, revelando una trama ingeniosa que culmina en un final inolvidable. Con un tono intimista, Krauss logra contar una profunda historia de amor, llena de pasión y melancolía, que resonará con todo tipo de lectores.

Dr Hope Clearwater lives on an African beach reflecting on the complicated, violent and tragic events that brought her there her stormy marriage to John, a brilliant mathematician, her painstaking research work among the wild chimpanzees in the national park, her encounters with the chaos of the civil war. She examines her past and tries to find tranquility.