House of Sand and Fog

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'ONE OFTHE BEST AMERICAN NOVELS I'VE EVER READ A STUNNING BOOK. . .NO ONE WHO READS THIS NOVEL WILL EVER FORGET IT. I HAVE NEVER FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT THE TALENT OF A YOUNG WRITER IN MY LIFE' JAMES LEE BURKE
'A story of remarkable power and veracity arid tenderness'
TOBIAS WOLF^ x ^
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VV^hen Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from their father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a f6rmer Iranian Air Force
officer for whom it represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future for his family and his !own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its Ickss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her and the stage is set for a ^ut~wrenching tragedy.
'In his stunning and original new novel, Andre Dubus III has concocted th^perfect human conflict on... Tovább

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'ONE OFTHE BEST AMERICAN NOVELS I'VE EVER READ A STUNNING BOOK. . .NO ONE WHO READS THIS NOVEL WILL EVER FORGET IT. I HAVE NEVER FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT THE TALENT OF A YOUNG WRITER IN MY LIFE' JAMES LEE BURKE
'A story of remarkable power and veracity arid tenderness'
TOBIAS WOLF^ x ^
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VV^hen Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from their father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a f6rmer Iranian Air Force
officer for whom it represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future for his family and his !own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its Ickss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her and the stage is set for a ^ut~wrenching tragedy.
'In his stunning and original new novel, Andre Dubus III has concocted th^perfect human conflict on which the ordinary lives of pis credible characters must turn From the moment that one starts to read their story, one has no choice but to stay with these Characters until the end Beautiful;, gripping and highly ! t inte^lligeni^
THE TIMES
'The finest novel of the year Enormously affecting' TIME OUT ^
'A remarkable and distiitjctive writer A fine and prophetic novel Dubus is better than perhaps even he knows' LOS ÁNGELES TIMES Vissza