Toronto Star
“Janette Turner Hospital goes from strength to literary strength – ever brilliant in ideas, graceful in expression, resourceful in story – and in Charades throwing in, for good measure, a heady eroticism. I loved it!”
Fay Weldon
ISBN: 0 7022 3388 9
THE LAST MAGICIAN
This superb novel is richly textured and intellectually challenging, a tour de force from our most elegantly seductive writer.
The last magician is Charlie, the photographer who monitors and records everything as he seeks the silent Cat through physical and emotional infernos. Charlie, Cat, Robbie and Catherine shared a childhood summer in a Queensland rainforest. But a death intruded on their charmed circle, binding them to complicity and silence.
Decades later, festering memories seep through into the present, in the same way as the desperate underside of a corrupt Sydney breaks through into tidy lives and well-kept secrets.
“Spellbinding reading, an adventure of the mind and heart that enthralls from first page to last … Haunting, disturbing, subversive.”
Newsday, New York
“The real magic at work here is the writer’s … an ambitious, intense and satisfying book.”
New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 0 7022 3401 X
THE IVORY SWING
Juliet yearns for the “ebb and flow of life lived avidly”, for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of her husband and children and her own passionate need for expression is intensified by her move from small-town Canada to Southern India.
The stifling restrictions on Juliet’s freedom are magnified in the plight of her young widowed neighbour. The beautiful Yashoda longs to embrace the Western values that would release her from the strictures of Indian tradition. But the ancient mores are powerful and enduring, and challenging them inevitably leads to tragedy.
“The steamy, subtle, utterly impenetrable mysteries of India … a work both emotionally and stylistically deft.”
Thomas Keneally
“A truly magnificent literary achievement.”
Booklist, USA
ISBN: 0 7022 3403 6
THE TIGER IN THE TIGER PIT
Like the rare Blue Wanderer butterfly, Emily Carpenter is never still for long. She flees emotional commitment, despite the longing of her eight-year-old son for family, and for the easygoing sheep farmer with whom she once found peace.
While Emily’s eccentric mother works to reunite her scattered children, her once tyrannical father does his own scheming, made “irritable as the tiger in the tiger pit” by old age and regret. The scene is set for dramatic confrontation and unexpected revelations.
Janette Turner Hospital explores her fascination with the interweaving of time and place and displays the superlative skills of a storyteller that has won awards and critical acclaim for all of her published books.
“One feels the rush of life in her pages … a writer of remarkable talent who writes about family relationships with rare insight and compassion.”
Publishers Weekly
“Turner Hospital’s gift for memorable characters and poetic prose come together in writing that is strong, wise and exciting.”
Ottawa Citizen
ISBN: 0 7022 3402 8
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