Most Popular Books by Marianne Wiggins

Marianne Wiggins is the author of Evidence of Things Unseen (2003), Properties of Thirst (2022), The Shadow Catcher (2008), John Dollar (1999), Bet They'll Miss Us when We're Gone (1991).

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Evidence of Things Unseen

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Evidence of Things Unseen
This poetic historical novel, set between the world wars, tells the story of an American couple and their adopted son, Lightfoot.

Properties of Thirst

release date: Aug 02, 2022
Properties of Thirst
Set against the background of World War II, this novel about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream follows rancher Rocky Rhodes as he is faced with a threat greater than the LA Water Corporation he''s battled for years--the building of a Japanese-American internment camp next to his ranch.

The Shadow Catcher

release date: Jun 03, 2008
The Shadow Catcher
Inspired by the life of legendary photographer Edward Curtis, a series of tales about a photographer''s developing relationship with the Native Americans he astonishes by showing them pictures of themselves is interspersed with parallel tales about an unsung soldier, a husband, and a father. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

John Dollar

release date: Dec 01, 1999
John Dollar
An earthquake and tidal wave sweep John Dollar, Charlotte, and her pupils into the violent sea. They come to consciousness on the beach huddled around a paralyzed John Dollar.

Bet They'll Miss Us when We're Gone

release date: Jan 01, 1991
Bet They'll Miss Us when We're Gone
Thirteen powerful, heartrending stories by the author of John Dollar.

Almost Heaven

release date: Dec 01, 1999
Almost Heaven
Before his thirtieth birthday Holden Garfield has already burned out as a journalist in war-torn Bosnia. Returning to the United States, he hopes the familiar sunshine and rolling hills of Virginia will help him put aside the horrors he reported. Instead he finds Melanie, his mentor''s sister, who is institutionalized with a mysterious amnesia after her husband and son were killed five weeks earlier by a freak force of nature. Struck as if by lightning by her beauty, Holden sets out to help her reconstruct her past, and the pair is swept up in a passionate love affair -- one fighting to remember, the other struggling to forget. With this breakneck story of love and loss, Marianne Wiggins delivers a compelling novel that is a series of powerful metaphors for the curative forces of love as well as her own personal love letter to the American South.

Eveless Eden

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Eveless Eden
A romance between Noah John, an American foreign correspondent, and Lilith Luciana da Vinci, a glamorous news photographer. They meet in Africa, he moves into her apartment in Paris, she drops him for a Rumanian politician who sells HIV-polluted blood, but they will meet again. By the author of John Dollar.

Herself in Love and Other Stories

release date: Jan 01, 1988

Separate Checks

release date: Jan 01, 1989

Still

release date: Feb 01, 2008
Still
With an introduction by Marianne Wiggins and an Afterword by Jay Dusard.

From the Heart

release date: Jan 01, 1998
From the Heart
Co-published with Art Museum of South Texas, Catalog of the Sondra Gilman collection.

Las propiedades de la sed

release date: May 13, 2024
Las propiedades de la sed
Una épica historia de amor ambientada en California durante uno de los episodios más oscuros de la segunda guerra mundial. «Una obra maestra.» The New York Times Rocky Rhodes lleva años protegiendo con uñas y dientes su rancho de California frente al Departamento de Aguas de Los Ángeles que está drenando sus acuíferos. Es en ese rancho del valle de Owens donde su mujer y él criaron a sus hijos gemelos, Sunny y Stryker, y donde Rocky ha llorado a su esposa desde su muerte. Cuando Estados Unidos entra en la segunda guerra mundial, el gobierno decide construir en el valle uno de los campos de internamiento en los que confinará a los más de cien mil ciudadanos de origen japonés que viven en los estados de la costa del Pacífico. El director del campo, un chico judío de Chicago, quedará fascinado por la familia Rhodes, especialmente por la joven Sunny. Las propiedades de la sed es una inolvidable novela sobre uno de los episodios más oscuros del pasado estadounidense, pero también es una historia de amor: el de una familia por un paisaje amenazado y el de un hombre por una mujer asombrosa. Una historia universal e íntima, cuyos ecos resuenan especialmente hoy en día, sobre la celebración de los vínculos amorosos y familiares que sobreviven a pesar de las dificultades. Sin duda, una de las grandes novelas americanas de los últimos años. «Esta magnífica novela toca el nervio sensible del lenguaje y produce descargas eléctricas que sacuden al lector. Es una historia de amor, el relato de una familia y un canto a la historia. Habla de la vergüenza, la pérdida, la recuperación y la belleza. Una novela que atesorar, escrita con gran humor y humanidad.» Colum McCann «Más que contar una historia, Wiggins hace que el lector la viva (...). Reinventa nuestra idea de lo que la ficción es capaz hacer.» The Sunday Times «Una novela poética y arrolladora que me atrapó desde las primeras páginas.» Nora Krug (The Washington Post)

Peklo na ostrově

release date: Jan 01, 1993

Herself in Love and Other Stories Counter Display

release date: Aug 05, 1988

עדן בלי חווה

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Zelfportret en andere verhalen

release date: Jan 01, 1992

“Das” Paradies schwarzweiß

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Noahs Schwester.

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Fang an bei Null und zähle rückwärts

release date: Jan 01, 1995
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