David Leavitt

It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is the only neutral port left in Europe - a city filled with spies and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to pass the time until they can escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, sophisticated, wealthy, bohemian and beset by all the social and sexual anxieties of their class. As Portugal's neutrality and the world's future hang in the balance, the hidden threads of their lives begin to come loose. This journey will change the four of them irrevocably.

Louise Cooper has been battling cancer for over twenty years. Her growing resentment towards her suburban life and her husband, Nat, compounded by his affair, have left her longing for the life she dreamed of having in her youth. Meanwhile her family are facing other challenges. Her son Danny, a lawyer in San Francisco, has discovered his lover is growing obsessed with online sex, and her daughter, a lesbian protest-singer, announces herself pregnant after performing DIY artificial insemination with everyday kitchen utensils.This is a rich exploration of a family facing inexorable change.

A loving exploration of one of the greatest collaborations of the past century, THE INDIAN CLERK is a novel that brilliantly orchestrates questions of colonialism, sexual identity and the nature of genius. Una primorosa exploracion sobre una de las mayores colaboraciones del siglo pasado, "The Indian Clerk" es una novela que entrelaza con maestria las cuestiones del colonialismo, la identidad sexual y la naturaleza del genio.

Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apartment and their son, prompted by his new relationship, reveals his homosexuality, their lives cannot continue as they were. Owen and Rose are forced to confront not only their son''s revelation but also Owen''s latent homosexuality.Poignant and lingering, this is a tale of love and relationships, secrets and unspoken desires.

Una lúcida historia de traiciones y desgarradoras tomas de conciencia en uno de los períodos históricos más complejos de la historia del mundo. El año en que comienzan a desencadenarse los acontecimientos de esta polemica y largamente esperada novela es 1936; el lugar, Londres, y el titulo, una clara referencia a Orwell y su Homenaje a Cataluña, donde se habla del profundo, profundisimo sueño de Inglaterra durante la subida de Hitler al poder y la Guerra Civil Española.Brian Botsford tiene veintitres años, es escritor, aunque ahora se encuentra atravesando una dura etapa de esterilidad, y ha regresado a Londres tras pasar dos años en Berlin, el Berlin de los cafes, las cervezas, las largas noches y los muchachos esplendidos. Pero Brian es tambien un joven inquieto por lo que acontece en el mundo, que no se encuentra demasiado a gusto ni comparte las ideas politicas de la clase social mas bien alta a la que pertenece. Y en una reunion organizada por el partido comunista para apoyar la causa de la republica española, conoce a Edward Phelan, un joven proletario que trabaja en el metro de Londres. Abandonan juntos la reunion, se van a hacer el amor a la pension de Brian, y poco tiempo despues comenzaran a vivir juntos. Pero Brian, a pesar de su felicidad junto a Edward, aun cree que su homosexualidad no es mas que una fase que dejara atras como se dejan atras los dientes de leche, y comienza una confusa relacion con una mujer. Y Edward, mucho mas apasionado y mas sincero, tanto en sus compromisos sentimentales como politicos, decide marcharse a combatir a España.A partir de ahi, la novela -hasta entonces una sutil cronica de ideologias y costumbres, un apasionante recorrido por el Londres de los jovenes intelectuales fascinados por la izquierda y el dandismo-, se convierte en una lucida historia de traiciones y decepcion, de desgarradoras tomas de conciencia en uno de los periodos historicos mas complejos, mas cruciales, de la historia del mundo y de España.

Louise Cooper ha padecido un cancer durante los últimos quince años. Su vida, simple y a la vez difícil, como la define su hijo Danny, un abogado homosexual, llega a su termino, y en el núcleo familiar ese vortice que fascina a Leavitt, para quien la familia "es la mayor y mejor excusa literaria que se ha inventado" todo parece estallar, y salen a la luz sentimientos reprimidos durante largo tiempo.Pero Amores iguales, aunque hable de la muerte, no es un libro triste. De el ha dicho su autor que es "una novela que trata sobre el poder femenino, sobre mujeres fuertes, mucho mas fuertes que los hombres, y tambien pienso que es el libro mas optimista que he escrito".

From the author of THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES, EQUAL AFFECTIONS and THE PAGE TURNER, a collection of short stories which tell of middle-class America, and the lives of its people.

On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important unsolved mathematical problem of his time. Some of his Cambridge colleagues dismiss the letter as a hoax, but Hardy becomes convinced that the Indian clerk who has written it - Srinivasa Ramanujan - deserves to be taken seriously. Aided by his collaborator, Littlewood, and a young don named Neville who is about to depart for Madras with his wife, Alice, he determines to learn more about the mysterious Ramanujan and, if possible, persuade him to come to Cambridge. It is a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics. Based on the remarkable true story of the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown - and unschooled - mathematical genius, and populated with such luminaries as D. H.Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk fashions from this fascinating period an exquisitely nuanced and utterly compelling story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world.