Bøger af Paul Koppisch

"FULL OF HUMOR, SUSPENSE, AND SASSINESS!""CAPTIVATING AND HEARTWARMING""A BRILLIANT YOUNG ADULT LOVE STORY""ENCHANTING!" Song Lee, an adventurous high school girl from South Korea, searches for her missing classmate, Levi, but stumbles upon his secret life and his family's desperate plan to rescue him. Entering a realm spanning several worlds, she learns that her childhood friend is trapped within the plot of a book. How will she navigate the strange and wondrous book universe and bring Levi back to our world without altering the plot and destroying a great work of literature? The Book of Levi is a beautiful, enchanting love letter to stories, their storytellers, and the doors books lead young readers through.

"BEAUTIFUL!""HAUNTING!""AN ADDICTIVE AND RIVETING PSYCHOLOGICAL YARN!" A tormented young woman with a horrible past. Memories that ceaselessly taunt and frighten. An abuser who still visits her dreams. Years ago, as a child, Willow was taken by a sex trafficker posing as her would-be boyfriend and was then passed from abuser to abuser while her twin sister fruitlessly searched for her. When she finally escapes years later as an adult, she meets the only person who seems to understand what she has gone through and they fall in love. But terrifying nightmares of Willow's past continue to haunt her very being and soon, her sanity is threatened. This tantalizing, emotional story grabs the reader from the first page and doesn't let go. Psychological thriller fans won't be able to put it down!

"MOODY, AMBIENT, A REFRESHING WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION!" "TIMELY, INCREDIBLY POIGNANT, ATMOSPHERIC!" In Daughter, Koppisch's breakout futuristic thriller, a lost child brings out the best and worst of human nature and suggests that racism and fear of the 'other' are traits common to all societies, even alien ones more advanced than our own. This crisply written tale of raw human experience will make you question humanity's ability to rise above its frailty and innate flaws and question whether it is any better elsewhere in the universe.

"AN EPIC SAGA OF 20TH CENTURY ASIA!" "A TWISTING, HAUNTING TALE" Set in East Asia during the Japanese occupation of Korea before and during World War II, The Long Sorrow is a harrowing and luminous saga of two teenage Korean boys who meet a like-minded monk named Yon Park. After witnessing the horrors of Japanese rule in their country, together, they travel to China in an attempt to gather a revolutionary force of Korean exiles to free their native Korea. What they find in China is something completely different and their traumatic experiences there banish the innocence of these boys and set each on a very different course.

"A tightly wrapped, pulsating crime drama..." "An imaginative take on the classic spy novel formula..." "Impossible to put down!"Veteran author Paul Koppisch's twelfth novel is a tightly wound, international thriller that centers on a retired female mercenary who starts an intensive war against deception and corruption when coerced into assisting in a federal investigation. Although reluctant at first, she eventually gives in and enters a dangerous game of temptation and espionage across East Asia. Her mission is to infiltrate and compile information on a ubiquitous group of Japanese criminals presumed to be the creators of a lethal new drug that has recently hit the streets. Uncovering a startling revelation about her past, she eventually decides to stray from her assigned task and goes rogue...as does her FBI handler.

"AN ADDICTIVE TALE WITH SEVERAL JAW-DROPPING TWISTS!""POIGNANT AND HEARTWARMING""A DEVASTATING AND EMOTIONAL LOVE STORY" Brenda Donner is a poor, teenage girl from Red Bank, New Jersey who is trying desperately to manage her violent stepfather's abuse while keeping her family together and finishing school. Frightened that her younger brother Sam will be taken away from her, she vows to do whatever it takes to keep her dark secret from ever coming out. What Brenda doesn't know is that a new teacher at her school has taken a special interest in her wellbeing, and what she expects even less is the sexual attraction she starts to feel in return. If either of these secrets see the light of day, lives and careers will be at risk. Brenda decides she will stop at nothing to keep those she loves safe but, in the end, realizes that only through trust will she achieve that goal. In his latest novel, An Atlas of Hearts, Paul Koppisch turns the reader's attention to a group of unlikely characters given his previous works, a ragtag clan of drug taking teenagers, as well as an unlikely setting, modern day America. But through this combination, Koppisch succeeds in offering up a revelation about a defining axiom of modern life, that the human heart is at the same time capable of great love and great hatred, but also great tenderness, and great vulnerability.

"Incandescent!""Timeless!""A personal story of love, heartbreak, betrayal, and survival. An unforgettable tale."Where The Sampaguita Grows follows three generations of the Villanueva-Alarcon family from their provincial roots in The Philippines to the United States. Told through the eyes of their second son Luis, the story centers on the family's dubious relationship to their domestic, a poor, illiterate young woman named Soledad who, as time passes, is 'gifted' to each new generation of the family. In his eighth unforgettable novel, Paul Koppisch portrays a family's struggle with the moral issues surrounding a dark secret they've been hiding in plain sight for almost one hundred years.

"A JOURNEY OF TRIAL AND REDEMPTION, OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, OF GETTING LOST AND BEING FOUND AGAIN" "BROAD IN SCOPE, ADVENTUROUS AND CHALLENGING TO THE SENSES." In October 1975, a strange, unwanted girl was placed on a decrepit fishing boat and cast out to sea along with others from her small village outside of Saigon. What became of the little girl after is a harrowing story that plumbs the depths of identity and loss, of being and memory and belonging and alienation. Part adventure, part psychiatric case study, part love story, Who Knows Where the White Crane Flies? examines the questions surrounding what it means to be lost to the world and to one's own mind, only to be found once again, how others truly affect our lives and ultimately, what our duty is to them in this world and what their duty is to us. In this, his eighth novel, Koppisch systematically breaks the reader's heart and then begins mending it as he traces the journey of a girl who challenges our conventional notions of love and acceptance.

"Koppisch's thrilling first novel is a taut, pulsating, crime drama as well as a detailed work of historical fiction!" It's August 1950. The corrupt, crime-ridden city of Pusan is surrounded by the Communist North Korean People's Army and completely cut off. Jimmy Hong is a young investigator struggling to make a name for himself finding missing persons, etc. while stuck in the city and trying to make the best out of the desperate living conditions caused by the siege. One morning, two fishermen find the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washed up on the bank of the Nakdong River. The only clue to her identity is a pendant with a strange symbol. Hong, having lost his own unborn daughter when his pregnant wife died of cholera several years earlier, becomes obsessed with finding the girl's killer. With little to work with and operating in a city that may be overrun at any moment, Hong is in over his head...and about to cross paths with a dangerous man from his past.

"Twisted...Unsettling...Disturbing. An absolutely gripping thriller."In All the Pretty Girls, the new, searing, edge-of-your-seat thriller from veteran author Paul Koppisch, a depraved, psychopathic runaway from a Cleveland foster home who calls herself Cat likes seducing young girls and killing them. After making her way to San Francisco, she eventually comes under the suspicion of Stan Birecki, the aging, Polish-born police detective who has been tracking a string of serial murders of young women, hoping to hang his career on this one case. But after ten years, he has very little to show for it.

"COMPELLING!" "A TRIUMPH OF HISTORICAL FICTION!" "AN EPIC TOUR DE FORCE!" The Confessions of Anna María, the riveting ninth novel by Paul Koppisch, traces the tragic life of Anna María Santiago, the daughter of a wealthy merchant ship captain from Seville, Spain beginning in the year 1519 amidst the Age of Conquest in the New World. After setting out from Seville at the young age of thirteen, a passenger on her father's ship, Anna María is shipwrecked, eventually washing up on a beach in what is present day Yucatan, Mexico. Without water or food and near death, she reluctantly follows, and is later taken in by a strange and exotic people who eventually accept her as one of their own. However, her former countrymen, searching for gold in the Yucatan and bent on conquest under the guise of converting heathens to Christianity, could destroy everything she comes to hold dear in this new world. The Confessions of Anna Maria is a thrilling historical adventure set in the past, but the existential themes at the heart of Koppisch's novel-the rawness of life, the precious inner-workings of nature, the drive to continue on in the face of challenges-are as timely as they come.

"EQUAL PARTS IMAGINATIVE, HEARTBREAKING, VIVID AND INTIMATE, LIN TAN IS A MASTERPIECE!""KOPPISCH WEAVES A PLOT THAT IS BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DEADLY." Qijiang, Sichuan Province, China 1893.Having been raped by the wealthy man her father arranged to have her marry, a naïve sixteen-year-old Chinese girl sets out across the world following the man she believes truly loves her, but is he simply an illusion? Along the way, she is compelled to rescue a very real and desperate young child who is about to be sold to a brothel in San Francisco's Chinatown. Nearly penniless and struggling to distance herself from her past while at the same time risking her life to protect a tiny victim of the Chinese slave trade, Lin Tan is forced to confront and adapt to a dangerous and unforgiving new world she does not understand and is not prepared for.

"THE POIGNANT, AT TIMES BRUTAL ACCOUNT OF ONE GIRL'S SHORT, TRAGIC LIFE." "DEVASTATING....UNSETTLING." In April of 2002, the body of a sixteen-year-old Mexican girl was found behind a strip mall in Tempe, Arizona by a store worker. To this day, she has never been identified. The last person to see her alive told the police she had been kicked out of her mother's house for using drugs. Upon completing an autopsy, the Maricopa County Coroner's Office stated that the girl died of cocaine intoxication. A forensic artist developed a rendition of what the girl might have looked like in life, smiling, hair neatly brushed, as if she was posing for her high school yearbook photo. When the police fail to turn up a name, the media dubs her 'Tempe Girl' and for several months, she is the talk of the Tempe community. But soon, the public's attention turns elsewhere and Tempe Girl fades into obscurity. In Tempe Girl, Koppisch presents the reader with one of many possible accounts of what might have been Tempe Girl's short life. As an object lesson, he rips a story from the tabloids and bludgeons us with a metaphor for humanity in general to challenge our notion of the cheap and inconsequential nature of modern human existence as he traces the journey of an immigrant girl from a poor barrio in Mexico to her untimely death sixteen years later in Arizona.