Liese O’Halloran Schwarz taucht in ihren Werken in das komplexe Geflecht menschlicher Beziehungen und die Suche nach Identität ein. Ihre Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch scharfen Einblick in die Charakterpsychologie und eine tiefe emotionale Resonanz aus. Schwarz erforscht Themen wie Verlust, Erinnerung und die anhaltenden Verbindungen zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Ihre Prosa ist sowohl lyrisch als auch prägnant und bietet den Lesern ein tief bewegendes literarisches Erlebnis.
A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' Jodi PicoultBen is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others.
`Intelligent, thoughtful, resourceful' WASHINGTON POSTFilmmaking student Buddy Whyte never visited his mother's hometown while she was alive. But in a small town where even disparate voices agree that the past is best kept hidden from outsiders, will he actually learn the truth?
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister, Beatrice, as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother, who disappeared decades earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, she ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these unfamiliar surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US--ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But in truth, Robert works for American intelligence, Genevieve is entabgled in a passionate affair, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand. -- back cover