Mothers and sons

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Haslett, Adam

  • Titel: Mothers and sons / Adam Haslett
  • Person(en): Haslett, Adam [Verfasser*in]
  • Organisation(en): Penguin Books [Verlag]
  • Ausgabe: 1st edition, trade paperback
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: 320 Seiten ; 24 cm
  • Erschienen: London : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2025
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-0-241-70752-4 Broschur : EUR 22.50
  • Signatur: UNTERHALTUNG und KREATIVITÄT > Romane
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Inhalt: A mother and son, estranged for many years, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart in this highly anticipated novel by one of the most talented American writers of his generation. At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat centre she founded after leaving his father, is wounded by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago banished from her mind the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life forever, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.