7 Books by Janette Turner Hospital
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Overview: Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Brisbane and was educated at Wilston State School, Mitchelton High, the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College. She taught high school north of Cairns, but since her post-graduate degrees in Canada, she has taught in universities in Canada, Australia, England, France and the United States. She has won a number of prizes for her eight novels and three short-story collections, which have been published in numerous languages. In 2003, she won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Patrick White Award, and received a Doctor of Letters honoris causa from the University of Queensland. For twelve years, she held an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. In 2010, she was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. She continues to teach a course at the University of South Carolina as Carolina Distinguished Professor Emerita.
Genre: Fiction > Literary, Contemporary, Short Fiction
Borderline: A meat truck carrying illegal immigrants is intercepted at the Canadian-American border but an unconscious woman is inadvertently left inside the truck. Two strangers, waiting in separate cars, impulsively smuggle her across the border, and their lives are changed irrevocably. In this complex and compelling novel, Felicity and Gus cross and re-cross borders – between countries, between past and present, and between reality and illusion as they struggle to come to terms with borderlines of their own.
In this, her third novel, Janette Turner Hospital transforms a thrilling and suspenseful story into a deadly resonant parable for our times, leaving her readers not just entertained, but enriched.
Charades: This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland’s Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital’s characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.
This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth.
From the subtropical lushness of Queensland’s Tamborine Rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital’s characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning Scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-held secrets of her family origins.
Forecast- Turbulence: Stories: A breathtaking collection of nine short stories and one short memoir piece by internationally acclaimed Australian author Janette Turner Hospital Violent weather pervades this breathtaking collection, reflecting the cataclysmic emotions swirling through the lives of the protagonists. A loner becomes obsessed with the beautiful face of a neighbour, a child and his enigmatic grandmother sit out a hurricane, two fragile girls visit their stepfathers in prison and share a macabre ritual, a young woman is deeply ashamed of what her father has become … Janette turner Hospital sensitively weaves stories of heartbreaking poignancy, shocking power and steadfast resolve, all honouring a universal question: how can we maintain equilibrium in a turbulent and uncertain world? the turbulent river rushes on. ‘Everything flows,’ wrote Heraclitus, ‘and nothing stays fixed.’
Orpheus Lost: Love can take you to the darkest places … Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers. But Mishka is not all he seems – and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was. In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth – and the man she loves. Love can take you to the darkest places … Leela is a gifted mathematician who has escaped her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the first moment she hears Mishka, a young Australian musician, playing his violin in a subway, his music grips her, and they quickly become lovers. But Mishka is not all he seems – and the world around them is nothing like Leela thought it was. In this compelling re-imagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels to an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in search of the truth – and the man she loves.
The Claimant: A brilliant and compulsively readable story of truth, lies and identity from one of Australia’s finest writers.
‘So then, here it is. The unadorned un-self-flattering gospel, the never-before-told story our intricately intertwined lives … Listen: I know things that no one else knows. Trust me.‘
Manhattan, 1996: the trial of the Vanderbilt claimant is finally coming to an end. The case – long, complex, riven with unknowns, attracting huge media and social interest – has been seeking to establish whether or not a certain man is the son of the fabulously wealthy and well-connected Vanderbilt family.
The son went missing, presumed dead, while serving in the Vietnam war. There is huge fortune, prestige and status at stake. But is the man – a handsome cattle farmer from Queensland – really the Vanderbilt heir? And if so, why does he seem so reluctant to be found? From one of our foremost novelists, The Claimant is a compelling and ravishingly readable novel about the fluid, shifting and ultimately elusive nature of identity and the reasons why people seek to change their names, their identities or their personalities.
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 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 by 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 Ivory Swing won Canada’s prestigious $50,000 Seal Award for Best First Novel, as well as great critical acclaim.
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 as a storyteller that have won awards and critical acclaim for all of her published books.
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