Bøker av Janette Turner Hospital

In an enthralling novel as passionate as it is true to life, Hospital reveals an American underworld of suspicion and despair, and shows how fear and paranoia have worked their way into our daily lives.

A Library Journal Best Book and Booklist Editor's Choice: "This astonishingly rich novel...will entrance readers."-Library Journal, starred review

"A new standard for the short story genre that will be hard to surpass." --Library Journal

These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters' lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of numerous novels, including Oyster, which is published by Norton and was shortlisted for Australia's Miles Franklin and National Book Awards.

"A story of high tension and terrifying allure...Her writing has perfect pitch."-Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

"In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience."-San Francisco Chronicle

Janette Turner Hospital has been called by the Times Literary Supplement "one of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today." Oyster has received critical acclaim internationally, and was short-listed for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award in Australia.