Bøger af Alexis Schaitkin

"Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving in its adherence to tradition, faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough--that must surely draw the affliction's gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear? Provocative and hypnotic, Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere is at once a spellbinding revelation and a rumination on the mysterious task of motherhood and all the ways in which a woman can lose herself to it; the self-monitoring and judgment, the doubts and unknowns, and the legacy she leaves behind"--

"Claire tiene sâolo siete aänos cuando su hermana mayor, Alison, desaparece la âultima noche de las vacaciones familiares en la paradisiaca isla caribeäna de Saint X. Dâias despuâes, el cuerpo de Alison aparece en el mar, y la policâia arresta a dos empleados del sitio turâistico. Pero los sospechosos terminan por ser liberados, y la muerte de la joven se convierte en un misterio sin resolver con resonancia internacional. Aänos despuâes, Claire tiene un encuentro fortuito que la hacer revivir los hechos que llevaron a la desapariciâon de Alison. Entonces emprende una bâusqueda obsesiva por la verdad. ÅQuâe fue lo que ocurriâo en Saint X? ÅQuâe hacâian los sospechosos esa noche en la playa? Y la pregunta mâas difâicil de responder: Åquiâen era en realidad su hermana perdida? A travâes de la bâusqueda de Claire, Alexis Schaitkin nos presenta una poderosa novela sobre las historias que perseguimos para entender el pasado, y el poder esclavizante de la obsesiâon y la tragedia."--Back cover.

A stunning debut, a haunting portrait of grief, race, obsession and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know each other.