The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election

by Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz

Book Overview

A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee. Genevi?ve is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small French village. A teller and collector of stories, she is entranced by Madame Patin's oft-told folktales, which mask cunning and doom beneath beauty. As Genevi?ve grows into a woman, her life becomes both more sensual and more dangerous. She flees her village home, escaping to another word-spinner, a poet who captivates women -- his mother, his mistress, his niece's governess, and, soon, Genevi?ve. The poet is kind, but he too is a collector of stories -- and sometimes of secrets beyond words. An exquisite, knowing, and irresistible novel, The Looking Glass introduces to an American audience "one of Britian's best novelists" (The Independent on Sunday).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439132356
• ISBN13: 9781439132357
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.8"