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Imago este ultimul stadiu în metamorfoza unei insecte, în care aceasta atinge maturitatea, fiind aptă de a se reproduce. Pentru Ludmila Ulițkaia, termenul devine o metaforă care străbate întregul roman și sugerează maturizarea morală a ființei umane. O construcție epică impresionantă, în care tragedia e mereu subminată de elementele comice, un mare roman despre iubire, destine și caractere, Imago acoperă peste o jumătate de secol de istorie, de la funeraliile faraonice ale lui Stalin până la moartea poetului exilat Iosif Brodski.

All Penny has ever wanted to do is dance-and when that chance is taken from her, it pushes her to the brink of despair, from which she might never return. When she wakes up after a traumatic fall, bruised and battered but miraculously alive, Penny must confront the memories that have haunted her for years, using her love of movement to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

Um Himmelswillen, wo bleibt der Junge? Als ihr kleiner Enkel Bruno nicht zum Essen kommt, meint Elisabeth, die Kontrolle über ihr Leben zu verlieren. Ihre Tochter Cornelia hat sich von ihrem Mann getrennt und nimmt eine "Auszeit" in Pennsylvania. Stella, Brunos hinreißende ältere Schwester, treibt sich mit ihren Peers irgendwo in der Stadt herum. Und Bruno ist einfach weg. Unerreichbar. Einmal noch wollte Elisabeth Verantwortung übernehmen, Cornelia vier Wochen lang alles abnehmen, ohne Wenn und Aber.

In Banshee, Samantha Baxter - wife, mother, poetry professor - learns she has breast cancer and then ruins her own life. Tumbling through a catastrophic midlife crisis, she gives herself permission to partake in behaviors she's observed in her male colleagues, including having an affair with a student her daughter's age, ranting at board meetings, and telling her poetry students what she really thinks of their work. Underneath biting, witty narration lurks a childish, confused, and unrealized adult woman hell-bent on destroying her relationships and professional life.

Probably the most famous of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome contrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged and whose strengths and weaknesses she understood so well. Ethan Frome is a keenly-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village.