Cynthia Ozick Bücher

Die große amerikanische Erzählerin Cynthia Ozick ist neu zu entdecken mit dieser Variation von Henry James’ berühmtem Roman Die Gesandten. Zentrales Thema: Wie kann Liebe gewonnen und gepflegt, warum kann sie zerstört und verspielt werden?

»Professor, 1933 aus Berlin zugez., Kinder 3-14 J., su. Hilfskraft, Umzug NYC. Kontakt Mitwisser, 22 Westerly.« Was sich liest wie ein Telegramm, ist eine Annonce, und Rose Meadow, achtzehn Jahre alt, ohne Angehörige, bewirbt sich auf das vielversprechende Inserat. Die Mitwissers waren über Nacht zu Flüchtlingen geworden. Und Rose, Mädchen für alles und ebenfalls heimatlos, besitzt Witz und, was für verlorene Existenzen typisch ist: Empfindlichkeit und eine scharfe Beobachtungsgabe. Sie ist es, die uns dieses Haus der verschlossenen Türen und stummen Münder aufschließt.

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her powers

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a story about the Holocaust that "burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal powers" (The New York Times). "Read this great little book of Cynthia Ozick's: It contains dazzling staggering pages filled with sadness and truth." —Elie Wiesel, Chicago Tribune A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.

Ozick is a kind of narrative hypnotist. Her range is extraordinary; there is seemingly nothing she can't do. Her stories contain passages of intense lyricism and brilliant, hilarious, uncontainable inventiveness.

'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' TLSA new novella about memory and ageing and three short stories

Yearning for a life of the mind, Ruth Puttermesser finds herself mired in the lowest circles of city bureaucracy. Her love life hopeless, her fantasies more influential than wan reality, she nevertheless turns out to be the best mayor New York City has ever elected. Soon enough, though, paradise gained becomes paradise lost, and--even for a wistful visionary like Puttermesser--the problem of disappointment remains unresolved.

"From one of our most pre eminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings. Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family history-in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (check out his Wikipedia entry!), the source of his interest in antiquity-he reconstructs the story of his encounter from his school days with a younger student named Ben-Zion Elefantin, who seems to belong to a lost ancient Jewish sect. From this seed emerges one of Ozick's most wondrous tales, one that displays her delight in Jamesian irony and the mythical flavor of a Kafka parable, woven into her own distinct voice"--