Новинки Патрисии Данкер

В основанном на реальных событиях романе Патрисия Данкер рассказывает невероятную, охватывающую пять десятилетий и пять континентов историю известного военного врача Викторианской эпохи Джеймса Миранды Барри, который лишь после его смерти в преклонном возрасте был «разоблачен» как... женщина. Это захватывающее повествование о мрачных семейных тайнах, внебрачных…

In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her not-quite-husband Lewes, to finalize the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her.

But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max’s visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Countess Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An acquaintance from Max’s childhood, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and willful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely, and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to her idol, George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind of a woman, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her.

With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and the turbulent love story of the countess and Max, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a compulsive read and a high literary achievement.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest…

The thrilling tale of a secret European sect and the musical mastermind at its center, from a critically acclaimed novelist at the top of her form.
The bodies are discovered on New Year’s Day, sixteen dead in the freshly fallen snow. The adults lie stiff in a semicircle; the children, in pajamas and overcoats, are curled at their feet.
When he hears the news, Commissaire André Schweigen knows who to call: Dominique Carpentier, the Judge, also known as the “sect hunter.” Carpentier sweeps into the investigation in thick glasses and red gloves, and together the Commissaire and the Judge begin searching for clues in a nearby chalet. Among the decorations and unwrapped presents of a seemingly ordinary holiday, they find a leather-bound book, filled with mysterious code, containing maps of the stars. The book of the Faith leads them to the Composer, Friedrich Grosz, who is connected in some way to every one of the dead. Following his trail, Carpentier, Schweigen, and the Judge’s assistant, Gaëlle, are drawn into a world of complex family ties, seductive music, and ancient cosmic beliefs.
Hurtling breathlessly through the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lübeck, Germany, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums, and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village, this ferocious new novel is a metaphysical mystery of astonishing verve and power.

Es ist die einschneidendste Erfahrung seines Lebens: Im Sommer 1993 ist der Erzähler, ein Student in Cambridge, mit einem Forschungsprojekt über die Romane des französischen Schriftstellers Paul Michel beschäftigt. Daneben beginnt er eine Liebesbeziehung zu einer ungewöhnlichen jungen Frau, die ihn vom ersten Moment an in eine andere, leidenschaftliche Welt verstrickt, in der Lesen und Begehren eins sind.

Angetrieben von ihrer Willensstärke, macht der Erzähler sich auf die Suche nach dem skandalumwitterten Michel, der seit Jahren in einer psychiatrischen Anstalt lebt. Quer durch England und Frankreich und gegen den Widerstand der Institutionen kämpft er sich zu Paul Michel durch; es ist ein Weg voller Grenzüberschreitungen, auf dem er in die glasklare, wahnsinnige Wirklichkeit des Autors eindringt und sich selbst in einen Ausnahmezustand vorarbeitet.

Вот я и решила написать серию переплетенных между собой историй, рассказанных от первого лица разными голосами. Вот неизменные сюжеты: изнасилование, терроризм, растление, извращения, все потустороннее и зловещее, полтергейст, вампиры и пришельцы, маньяки, загадочные преследователи (которые обычно тоже оказываются маньяками), домашнее насилие, порнография и массовые…

At the turn of the 19th century in England, a young, beautiful Mary Ann Bulkeley gives birth to a redheaded baby girl of uncertain paternity. Before the sensitive tomboy turns ten, the family determines she should be raised and schooled as a boy. So begins The Doctor, a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who…

An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student, sets off on the trail of a French novelist named Paul Michel, who is currently confined to an asylum. Engineering his hero's release, the narrator finds himself enmeshed in bizarre love triangle,…