Bücher von Peter Cameron

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the spring of 1950, Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion in the English countryside to nurse the elderly Edith Hart. There, Coral meets Hart House's odd inhabitants: Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, her charge's war-ravaged son. When a child's game goes violently awry in the nearby woods, a great shadow-love, perhaps-descends upon its residents. Other seemingly random events-a torn dress, a missing ring, a lost letter-propel Coral and Clement precipitously into the mysterious thicket of marriage.Written with his unique sense of wit and empathy, Peter Cameron's brilliant novel is a stunning exploration of how need and desire can blossom into love-and just as quickly transform into something less categorical.

Ein New Yorker Ehepaar reist mit dem Zug in eine abgeschiedene, schneeverwehte Kleinstadt im Norden Europas, um im örtlichen Waisenhaus ein Kind abzuholen, das sie adoptieren wollen. Er hofft, durch das Kind seiner Frau wieder näherzukommen. Sie, gezeichnet vom Kampf gegen eine tödliche Krankheit, will ihn nach ihrem Tode nicht allein zurücklassen. Am Ziel ihrer Reise angelangt, quartieren sich die beiden im Grand Imperial Hotel ein, das von der Pracht längst vergangener Tage zeugt und in dem eine Handvoll skurriler Gäste logiert. Am nächsten Morgen setzt das Taxi sie fälschlicherweise nicht beim Waisenhaus ab, sondern vor dem Haus von Bruder Emmanuel, einem mysteriösen Heiler. Dies löst eine Reihe von Verwicklungen aus, die den Plan, das Kind abzuholen, nach und nach in den Hintergrund treten lassen.In diesem Buch darf nichts für bare Münze genommen werden - und nie weiß man, was als Nächstes geschieht. Peter Cameron stört empfindlich unsere Gewissheiten über den natürlichen Ablauf der Welt und liefert dabei einen Roman ab, dessen eigenartige Spannung und grotesker Humor ihresgleichen suchen.

The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, now a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gund's authorized biography. His request is refused, but Omar has already accepted a fellowship from the university, and with his girlfriend's vehement encouragement, he goes in person to Uruguay to petition to Gund's three executors. Although Caroline Gund, Jules' wife, and Arden Langdon, Jules' mistress and mother of his child, are initially opposed to the idea of a biography, Omar has the support of Adam, Jules' older brother, and hopes to be able to persuade the two women. Omar's unexpected arrival in Uruguay reverberates through this odd and isolated little family group, and his stay in the languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question his former life in Kansas, and his ability-even his desire-to write an "authorized" life.

On a midsummer weekend, in a country house in upstate New York, three friends, Lyle, Marian, and John, gather on the anniversary of the death of John's brother, who was also Lyle's lover. As Tony's absence haunts each of them in different ways, the reunion is complicated by the presence of Lyle's new lover, a much younger man named Robert, and a faux-Italian dinner guest with a penchant for truth telling. As the seemingly idyllic weekend proceeds, each character is stripped bare, and old memories and new desires create a chemistry that will transform them all.