Anita Brookner

‘Op haar veertigste besefte doctor Weiss dat de literatuur haar leven had verwoest.’ Literatuurwetenschapster Ruth Weiss is mooi, intelligent en e

Explore the story written by Booker Prize winner Anita Brookner about romance novelist Edith Hope, who flees to a hotel in Switzerland for peace and q

In de roman die haar de Booker Prize opleverde en haar internationale reputatie vestigde, vertelt Anita Brookner het verhaal van Edith Hope, een schri

Hiltje Aukes Sipma (1805-1898) uit het Friese Bornwird besloot in 1847 samen met haar man en zes kinderen de oversteek te wagen naar het land van de o

Named one of the 100 Best Novels Ever Written in English (The Guardian) Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant toda

At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappe

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 h

Anita 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 Courtau

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes

In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lyt

In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe s

Booker Prize-winning author of "Hotel Du Lac" Anita Brookner creates a hauntingly beautiful story of a young woman's growing awareness of her own mort

'She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought, without knowing why she sought it, something to lift the spirits, to transport her on a

With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longi

A title that tells the story of two men, the charming Hartmann and the troubled Fibich, best friends ever since they came to England as German refugee