Victoria Redel Bücher

Victoria Redels „Anna und wir“ ist ein bewegender Roman über eine innige Frauen-Freundschaft und einen letzten Wunsch. Anna ist eine Kämpferin, stets Vorbild und Halt für ihre Freundinnen. Für Helen, die jahrelang kein Glück mit Männern hatte; für Molly, deren Tochter gegen jeden und alles aufbegehrt; für Ming, deren Leben durch eine Diagnose vollkommen verändert wird; und für Caroline, die sich stets als Außenseiterin fühlt. Doch nun hat Anna beschlossen, ihren Kampf gegen den Krebs aufzugeben. Als sich die Freundinnen noch einmal bei Anna versammeln, beginnt für sie eine ebenso schmerzliche wie zärtliche Zeit des Erinnerns und Abschiednehmens. Und eine Zeit des Aufbruchs, mit Anna in ihren Herzen. „Eine ergreifende Geschichte über Freundschaft und Verlust ... ein unerschrockener und anrührender Blick darauf, wie die letzten Tage einer Frau das Leben ihrer Freundinnen verändern.“ (Publishers Weekly) „Tough und zärtlich, tragisch und zum Lachen – dieser wunderschön geschriebene Roman erzählt von den Dynamiken jener wundervollen Freundschaften, die ein Leben lang halten.“ (Siri Hustvedt)

This poetry collection from the author of Lover Boy explores the themes of love and the richness of a life fully experienced. With a blend of heartfelt verses, it reflects on personal journeys and emotional connections, showcasing the depth and complexity of human relationships. The collection promises to resonate with readers through its poignant insights and lyrical beauty.

In eleven original, surprising and deliciously dark stories, Victoria Redel moves effortlessly between men's and women's perspectives in stories that explore marriage, divorce and parenthood. A newly divorced mother stumbles her way back into single life. A young man and his girlfriend clean out his dead mother's overstuffed home. A woman struggles to hide her affair from a doting husband and inquisitive daughter. A man descends into a drug-fueled dream as he imagines losing his pregnant wife to a historical, nineteenth century figure. Redel indelibly captures the ways we love, the ways we yearn and the ways we sabotage each. Throughout the collection, children struggle to make sense of the adult world's uncertainties as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, find themselves pressed up against their own limits, "the exaltations and treasons of one's own mothy heart." Redel has again done what Grace Paley said of Redel's first collection, "Only a poet could have written this prose. Only a storyteller could keep a reader turning these pages so greedily."

The narrative explores the journey of Sara Leader, a single professor who, while preparing to adopt a child, delves into her father's hidden past as a Holocaust refugee. This discovery prompts a deeper understanding of how his experiences have influenced her own life. The story alternates between the vibrant letters of a teenage boy to Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara's reflections on her father's traumatic history. Victoria Redel skillfully weaves themes of bravery, resilience, and the complexity of familial bonds, highlighting the interplay of humor and pain in the characters' lives.

Redel's prose is artful and insightful ... this is a hugely moving celebration of love, life and friendship. Eithne Farry S Magazine

Girls is an erotic spree, a journey into the most forbidden corners of male desire, a story about men who have been rendered numb by their power, who have sacrificed everything for success, who have lost their souls and can find meaning only by living vicariously, obsessively through young women. These are the men who wear a ring that says "Peace" or "Dream More" (which she gave them). But they are not at peace; the ring won't work. These are the men who left their safe lives, their wives; lust sets them free/is like a prison. They have replaced their old dreams with dreams of the girls they yearn for. Because the wide-eyed wonder of youth gives them back a taste of what they've lost.