false 2158050 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 3650 5 637845 2001 The Hunters total:99|5:16|4:31|3:41|2:7|1:4| 99 345 152 21 2508 2.88 8451 1866 44568779 1777872 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 83 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:44:54 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 14:48:38 -0800 2009 When the World Was Steady and The Last Life.

The NYTimes review called it "a work of near-miraculous perfection,"...more...]]> 62457424 143206 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 06:46:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 06:53:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 25041167 1212384 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 02:59:50 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 23:51:15 -0700 2008 'Een eenvoudige vertelling' vertelt het verhaal van de Oekraïense Maria P., die, na haar oorlogservaringen in Duitsland, in Canada een nieuw leven probeert op te bouwen. Het is een verhaal van teleurstelling, melancholie...more...]]> 16469724 335117 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 18:11:04 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 18:12:55 -0800 2008 The Hunters could have been written by two different authors: the writing style, themes, and tones vary drastically.

The first novella, “A Simple Tale,” centers around Maria, a “displaced person” in Canada (i.e., a WWII-era Ukrainian...more...]]> 81934992 2571904 651722 0151005885 9780151005888 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176761182m/651722.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176761182s/651722.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651722.The_Hunters 3.00 3 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 24 05:15:57 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 24 05:19:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67492122 130065 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 09:14:30 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 09:31:25 -0700 2009 75193408 2857590 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 0 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:19:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 19:19:37 -0700 2009 8250186 578392 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 5 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 17:02:03 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 09:36:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 68599360 791555 525880 0156007312 9780156007313 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430m/525880.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430s/525880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525880.The_Hunters 3.62 13 "The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:00:41 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:01:53 -0700 2009 3420320 160115 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jul 23 13:50:25 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:40:44 -0800 2009
the ...more...]]> 27654088 3947 525880 0156007312 9780156007313 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430m/525880.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430s/525880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525880.The_Hunters 3.48 99 "The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Fri Jul 18 14:41:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 22:39:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 26451628 832468 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 13:03:38 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 06:44:04 -0700 2008 The Emperor's Children and the two novellas in this book lead me to believe that she's one of the best writers out there right now. She doesn't rely on narrative trickery (though her narratives are intricately constructed), or linguistic flourish...more...]]> 63493458 858801 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 14 15:20:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:21:27 -0700 2009 23025368 1065093 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 22:03:38 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 20:32:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 36874035 803306 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Mon Nov 03 20:47:38 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 20:49:51 -0800 2008 Alfred Hitchcock movie with it's twists and ambiguity. I agree, it kept you guessing and at the end, you still didn't have the answers.more...]]> 7300192 250449 525880 0156007312 9780156007313 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430m/525880.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430s/525880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525880.The_Hunters 3.48 99 "The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 08:12:30 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 08:10:49 -0700 2007 8690178 217550 525880 0156007312 9780156007313 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430m/525880.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175541430s/525880.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525880.The_Hunters 3.48 99 "The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
</div>]]> 2001 4 0 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Nov 05 06:41:19 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 06:43:33 -0800 2007 21186357 662928 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 5 0 false Mon Apr 28 12:58:43 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 12:59:15 -0700 2008 9617467 638192 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Tue Nov 27 14:26:11 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 14 06:23:55 -0700 2008 8672265 600781 3650 0330488155 9780330488150 16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108m/3650.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030108s/3650.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3650.The_Hunters 3.48 99 A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all.

The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.
</div>]]> 2001 3 0 false Sun Nov 04 18:47:55 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 18:49:37 -0800 2007 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2158050