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Rose Tremain¿s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award ...

The Vintage Classic reissue of Rose Tremain's novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 and made into a 1995 movie starring Robert Downey Jr. Tremain's last novel "The Road Home" won the 2008 Orange Broadband prize. 'Triumphant.' "Sunday Telegraph".

Now in paperback, Rose Tremain's latest novel is a wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience, as we follow the story of Lev, newly arrived from Eastern Europe and looking for work. Packed with vibrant characters, rich with imagery and invention and poignant and moving, it is a hugely enjoyable read. 'Bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying' "Independent".

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I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeles...

Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin.

Lev ist ein Glückssucher: Er ist nach London gekommen, um seiner Familie ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen. Fremd und einsam denkt er zurück an seine jung verstorbene Frau Marina, seine kleine Tochter Maya und die verrückten Erlebnisse mit seinem Freund Rudi. Doch Lev ist entschlossen, sich eine Zukunft zu erkämpfen: Er entdeckt ein ungeahntes Talent, findet Freunde und sogar eine neue Liebe. Kraftvoll und klar, voller Menschlichkeit, Herzensw...