L'oasis des reves

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Chloe Aridjis

Tatiana settles in Berlin, distancing herself from her family, and takes a job transcribing notes for historian, Doktor Weiss, who introduces her to Jonas, a meteorologist.

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Perry Glasser

"Six contemporary American stories, mostly set in New York and the Midwest, that feature characters who seek to survive as they confront an array of dangers, from emotional fear to physical peril"--Provided by publisher.

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Anne Whitney Pierce

Ten stories on women. In Sans Homme, a girl falls in love with her mother's boyfriend, in Abeyance, a woman whose marriage is falling apart reflects on the loneliness ahead of her, while in Empty Beauty Salon, a woman moves her business from New York to Maine for a change of scenery.

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Kathryn Davis

A young woman in flight from her past, and an old woman whose secrets are contained in the grave . . . With this configuration Kathryn Davis, the acclaimed author of Labrador, begins a novel of true bravura - about opera, Denmark, adultery, and murder. In upstate New York, Frances Thorn waits tables in a diner, despite her privileged, educated background, and raises her twin daughters without the presence or even a memory of their father. But these puzzling circumstances are made stranger still, and inalterably changed, when she meets an elderly Danish woman named Helle Ten Brix, a renowned but esoteric composer now living with relatives in the same small town. At the heart of this peculiar friendship is a folktale, later retold by Hans Christian Andersen, about a prideful girl: rather than ruin her new shoes while crossing the treacherous bogs, she uses the loaf of bread intended as a present for her parents as a stepping-stone - only to be condemned for her arrogance to a horrible fate, trapped at the bottom of the bog forever. She is also the subject of Helle's final opera, left unfinished at her death and willed, along with the rest of her music, to Frances. From this curious legacy Frances must not only unravel the mysteries of the composer's life and work, but also confront the sorrow they have come to share. The story of two very different women contending with themselves and with each other, this is as well a short course in the opera, a kind of sexual history of the twentieth century, and a philosophical - even religious - passage from despair toward redemption. In the perfection of its language, in its dignity and wit, a novel at once sophisticated, humane, and wholly remarkable.