Susan Barker Bücher

»Dieser Roman wird dich bis in deine Träume verfolgen.« Claire Fuller In Osaka verpassen zwei Fremde, Jake und Mariko, ihren Flug. Beim Abendessen stoßen sie auf eine verstörende Gemeinsamkeit. Nicht nur haben sie beide geliebte Menschen an den Wahnsinn verloren – den Unglücksfällen, obwohl sie Tausende Kilometer voneinander entfernt stattfanden, ging jeweils das Erscheinen einer mysteriösen Fotografin voraus. Die seither unauffindbar ist. Von seinen Schuldgefühlen getrieben, folgt Jake Marikos Hinweisen auf die Spur dieser Frau, reist von Land zu Land und sammelt Zeugnisse von Menschen, deren Leben Schaden nahm, als die Fotografin auftauchte und ein Porträt im Morgengrauen schoss. Sie führen ihn schließlich in die Wüste New Mexikos zu Theo, einer alten sterbenden Bildhauerin: Kann sie ihn mit Antworten erlösen? Old Soul ist ein einmaliger literarischer Horrorroman. Susan Barker beschwört darin unsere panische Angst davor, dass das Leben endet, dass Schönheit, Lust und Schmerz nicht ewig währen können, ganz egal, was man unternimmt und welche Abbilder man sich schafft.

A thrilling journey through a millennium of obsession and betrayal, "The Incarnations" follows taxi driver Wang in Beijing as he discovers letters revealing his past lives. Each letter connects him to historical events and figures, highlighting the cyclical nature of history and humanity's repeated mistakes.

Malaya 1951, a jungle resettlement camp: young colonial adventurer Christopher Milnar falls passionately in love with a Chinese nurse Evangeline - a fierce flame that ends in tragedy when their camp is attacked by Communist guerrillas and Christopher is violently beaten up.

"Hailed as "China's Midnight's Children," a gripping new novel about a Beijing taxi driver whose past incarnations haunt him through searing letters sent by his mysterious soulmate"--

Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other 'economy gelshas' are employed by the enigmatic Mama san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing drinking games and taking turns in the karaoke booth. Mary is in love with Yuji, Mama san's handsome son. But Yuji's loyalty is to the petty Yakuza gangster for whom he works. Watanabe, the introverted cook, watches Mary from the Sayonara Bar's kitchen. He exists in his own manga-fuelled fantasy of the fourth dimension, and believes he can see into other people's souls, as well as into the gurgling viscera of their bodies. When he perceives the danger of Mary's growing obsession with Yuji, he resolves to protect her whatever the cost. Mr Sato works for the Daiwa Trading Corporation. Obsessive overwork cannot cover the emptiness of his solitary life. Lured against his will to the Sayonara Bar by his boss, he finds himself returning there to escape his dead wife's ghost. Edgy, sly, and often very funny, Sayonara Bar spins a kaleidoscopic, genre-crossing tale of people cut adrift in a shrinking, globalized world.