Ellen Feldman

In Alabama, 1931, a posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and as fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, "Scottsboro" is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.

Basado en una exhaustiva investigación sobre Peter van Pels y la extraña y perturbadora vida que el diario de Ana Frank cobró tras su muerte, ésta es una novela sobre el recuerdo de la muerte, la muerte del recuerdo y la imposibilidad de negar el pasado.El 16 de febrero de 1944 Ana Frank anoto en su diario que Peter, que al principio no le gustaba pero del que al final se enamoro, le habia confiado que si salian del escondite con vida, se reinventaria a si mismo por completo. Esta novela es la historia de lo que podria haber ocurrido si el chico hubiera sobrevivido y se hubiera convertido en un hombre.Peter llega a Estados Unidos, la tierra de la autocreacion, y se hace pasar por cristiano. Con exito en los negocios y rico en amor en elboom de los años cincuenta, prospera en el presente, planifica el futuro y no tiene pasado. Pero esta charada tiene un precio. La publicacion deEl diario de Ana Frank, que recibe elogios de todos los rincones del mundo, desencadena paralizantes recuerdos de sus vivencias en el anejo secreto de Amsterdam. El diario es tambien su historia, y una vez que la compuerta de los recuerdos se abre, su vida se descontrola.

Imagine if the boy in hiding with Anne Frank had survived the war...On 16 February 1944, Peter, Anne Frank's closest confidant in the Secret Annex, declared to her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely; no one would ever know who he was, or where he had been. This is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding had survived the horror. After the war, Peter van Pels leaves liberated Europe and its ghosts behind him and makes for the United States, the land of self-invention; there, he flourishes in business, marries and raises a family. He lives in the present and plans for the future; for him, the past does not exist. But Peter's carefully constructed life is broken apart when The Diary of a Young Girl is published and becomes a sensation all over the world. As Anne Frank's words take on a strange and disturbing life of their own, enmeshed in bitter controversy and recrimination, Peter sees his past being adapted, distorted, argued over and endlessly reinterpreted, until the dissonance between his present and former lives sparks a crisis he cannot suppress.The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank is a compelling novel about the power of stories, the meaning of history and the possibility of coming to terms with an unbearable burden of memory.

It's 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then World War II breaks out, and everything changes. Her friend Grace, married to a reporter on the local paper, fears being left alone with her infant daughter when her husband ships out; Millie, the third member of their childhood trio, now weds the boy who always refused to settle down; and Babe wonders if she should marry Claude, who even as a child could never harm a living thing. As the war rages abroad, life on the home front undergoes its own battles and victories; and when the men return, and civilian life resumes, nothing can go back to quite the way it was. From postwar traumas to women's rights, racial injustice to anti-Semitism, Babe, Grace, and Millie experience the dislocations, the acute pains, and the exhilaration of a society in flux. Along the way, they will learn what it means to be a wife, a mother, a friend, a fighter, and a survivor. Beautiful, startling, and heartbreaking, Next to Love is a love letter to the brave women who shaped a nation's destiny.