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A deeply moving story of a 43-year-old marriage by National Book Award winner Tuck unfolds over a single night as a grieving wife remembers the defining moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in Paris.

Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story."--Stephan Lee, "Entertainment Weekly" Lily Tuck's "The House at Belle Fontaine" brings together ten of the award-winning author's most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and continents, revealing apprehensions, passions, secrets, and tragedies among lovers, spouses, landlords and tenants, and lifelong friends. In crisp and...

Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up "like a broom" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of tal...

Nina bereitet das Abendessen vor, als ihr Mann Philip nach Hause kommt und sich für einen Moment hinlegt - nur wenig später findet sie ihn tot. Für Nina beginnt eine Nacht des Abschiednehmens, eine letzte Nacht, in der sie allein sein will mit ihrem Mann. Sie waren ein gegensätzliches Paar, er Mathematiker, sie Künstlerin. Doch gerade das machte ihr gemeinsames Leben so reich. Schlaglichtartig lässt Nina ihr Leben mit Philip an sich vorüberzie...

The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable commitment to writing. Forced to hide from the Fascists during World War II in a remote mountain hut with her husband, renowned author Alberto Moravia, she re-emerged at war's end to take her pla...

A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, "The News from Paraguay" offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th-century Paraguay, a largely untouched wilderness where Europeans and North Americans intermingle with both the old Spanish aristocracy and native Guaran' Indians.

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In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, "Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, " Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead, these women meet with disorientation, confusion, they are disappointed by the...

In her first novel since winning the National Book Award, Lily Tuck delivers an elegant tour-de-force portrait ofa forty-three-year marriage.

The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has met in Chartres Cathedral. Her departure confounds her family and neighbors: Adele is beautiful, she is lucky, she possesses charisma, she is a champion swimmer whose stamina and grace astound the patrons ...

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Tuck is a genius.”-Los Angeles Book Review Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date, and, significantly too, her most autobiographical work. As the child of a German movie producer ...

Mixing family lore, historical events, and photographs, this autobiographical novel creates a portrait of the writer as a young woman...enlivening.”-New Yorker "A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic and absorbing.”- NPR.com With The Double Life of Liliane National Book Award winner Lily Tuck delivers "the most beguiling work of [her] career” (The Millions)-an astonishing and riveting autobiographical novel in the manner of W.G. Sebald...

From National Book Award winner Lily Tuck, a beguiling and subversive short novel of jealousy and desire that tells the story of a new marriage from its surprising inception through its disturbing conclusion

A powerful and evocative work in the tradition of Graham Greene or Joan Didion, "Siam" is the American experience in Vietnam written small, establishing Lily Tuck as a major voice in contemporary fiction.