Elisabeth Lenckos
Palace of Flies
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In this melancholy, atmospheric novella, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), the former darling of fin de siècle Vienna, returns to a spa near Salzburg ...Read Review
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Throughout history, clothing has played a pivotal role as a signifier of class, race, and gender. Before the 18th century, when Western sumptuary ...Read Review
The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin
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Hilde is barely eighteen and a recent escapee from an orphanage, yet she stands poised to conquer 1930s queer Berlin. At the Café ...Read Review
China Room
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Trauma and endurance form the complex legacy passed on by a young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage in Punjab in 1929, to her ...Read Review
The Lincoln Highway
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Huckleberry Finn, make way for valiant Emmett Watson. Also, for his bookish little brother Billy, for Duchess, the fatal troublemaker, and for world-wary ...Read Review
I Couldn’t Love You More
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I Couldn’t Love You More is a stirring portrayal of motherly love and familial and institutional abuse through the eyes of three ...Read Review
Yasodhara and the Buddha
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When Prince Siddhartha begins the series of pilgrimages that lead to his becoming the Buddha, he leaves behind his wife, who is pregnant ...Read Review
The City of Tears
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While Minou Reydon-Joubert, her Calvinist husband, Piet, and their children ready themselves for the journey to Paris, where the marriage between Henry III ...Read Review
Yellow Wife
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Virginia, 1850. Beautiful and educated, enslaved Pheby Delores Brown looks forward to the day she turns eighteen, when she has been promised her freedom. ...Read Review
Those Who Are Saved
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Wealthy, educated, and attractive Vera, the heroine of Alexis Landau’s exquisite World War II novel, belongs to the select group of Russian é...Read Review
