Bücher von Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed . . . 'A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now'Spectator'A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever' The Times'Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart' Observer'Her technique as a novelist is so sure and so quietly commanding' Hilary Mantel, Guardian'She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction' Literary ReviewAnita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

'EIN DURCH UND DURCH GLORIOSER ROMAN.'Daniel SchreiberFrances Hinton führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben, gemeinsam mit der früheren Haushälterin ihrer längst verstorbenen Mutter. Als sie den charmanten Nick und seine umwerfende Frau Alix kennenlernt, ist sie von dem Paar so fasziniert, dass sie endlich aus ihrer Unsichtbarkeit heraustritt. Doch bald schon muss Frances erkennen, dass diese neue aufregende Welt nicht so glanzvoll ist, wie sie scheint ...'Brookner hat ein herausragendes psychologisches Gespür für die verletzte weibliche Seele.'The New York Times'Makelloser Stil und ungeheuchelte Empfindungen.'The ObserverAutorin ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize

Although Ruth Weiss at forty is the picture of a scholarly professor of English, she questions if the literature she escaped to in her youth has benefited her.

In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight.

Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious Digby, while Betsy is still searching for love and belonging. In this deeply perceptive story, Anita Brookner brilliantly charts the resilience of a friendship tested by alienation and by jealousy over a man who seems to offer the promise of escape.

Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela.With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Anita Brookner gives us a novel that it at once harrowing and humane. In the traditions of Henry James and Thomas Mann, Altered States is a beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession.

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

'BROOKNERS STIL IST EXQUISIT, JEDER SATZ EINE FREUDE.'The ObserverBlanche Vernons Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als ihr Mann sie nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe für eine Jüngere verlässt. Sie versucht sich abzulenken mit Museumsbesuchen und einem strikt geregelten Tagesablauf. Doch den bringt eine neue Bekanntschaft ins Wanken: eine egozentrische junge Frau mit einem zweifelhaften Liebesleben. Fasziniert von dieser so unkonventionellen neuen Freundin und dem dreijährigen Mädchen, das sich in deren Obhut befindet, lässt sich Blanche mehr und mehr manipulieren ...'Ein Meisterwerk der feinen, ironischen Zwischentöne.'Brigitte über Hotel du Lac'Brookner hat ein herausragendes psychologisches Gespür für die verletzte weibliche Seele.'The New York TimesAutorin ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize