New Releases by Sarah Waters

Um romance vitoriano que os vitorianos nunca sonharam escrever. Com diálogos afiados e provocantes, ''Na ponta dos dedos'' - finalista do Booker Prize em 2002 -mistura ladrões e golpistas, mansões e manicômios, intriga e desilusão, além de erotismo e farsa. Tudo com um ar contemporâneo e reviravoltas que surpreendem o leitor do início ao fim do romance escrito soberbamente pela inglesa Sarah Waters.

La joven Nancy Astley vendía ostras en una pequeña ciudad portuaria en la costa de Kent hasta que un día llegó una compañía de variedades donde cantaba un joven encantador, Nancy se dejó seducir por su voz y por su gracia, y descubrió que en realidad era también una jovencita, como ella. La siguió a Londres como su asistenta, como su amante y como su compañera de actuación. Pero esto no fue más que el primer paso de una larga y muy peculiar educación sentimental. Porque en la Inglaterra victoriana, la transgresión, los «vicios» más secretos, surgían a cada paso que Nancy daba.

TIPPING THE VELVET: Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. She becomes Kitty''s dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins. AFFINITY: An eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. FINGERSMITH: Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves - fingersmiths - in London''s Borough. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away...

Nan, a poor oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty''s dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square...

Die Waise Sue Trinder wird im viktorianischen London unter Dieben und Betrügern gross. Eines Tages soll sie dem Gentlemen Richard Rivers helfen, an das Vermögen der Adeligen Maud zu kommen. - Ein spannender Roman, der die düster, neblige Atmosphäre Londons wundervoll widergibt und Einblicke in das Leben sowohl der Armen wie der Wohlhabenden dieser Zeit gibt. Die Charaktere sind liebevoll ausgeführt, man schliesst sie beim Lesen ins Herz und vergisst dabei fast, dass es sich überwiegend umDiebe und Kleinkriminelle handelt ...

“Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”—The Seattle Times An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina’s freedom, and her own. As in her noteworthy deput, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters brilliantly evokes the sights and smells of a moody and beguiling nineteenth-century London, and proves herself yet again a storyteller, in the words of the New York Times Book Review, of "startling power."

Aan het eind van de 19e eeuw wordt een jong meisje verliefd op een zangeres en volgt haar naar Londen.

Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, ''mother'' to a host of pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt, she joins legendary thief Gentleman in swindling an innocent woman out of her inheritence.