DINNER WITH ANNA KARENINA: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 06840005B12562

English Summary/英文概要： And the worst of it is, you understand, that I can’t leave him: there are children, and I am bound. Yet I can’t live with him . . ." Immediately the words from Anna Karenina take on a significance for the women who have gathered over good food and good wine for their first book club meeting of the year. These six very different women are not quite friends, not quite strangers but, bonded by their love of literature, they share a deep understanding of one another -- or so they think.
On this night they are stunned when the most envied and privileged member of the group announces that she is divorcing her perfect husband for reasons she cannot, will not share. That such an idyllic marriage could be so vulnerable mystifies them, leaving them to speculate about what happened -- and what, in their own imperfect relationships, would constitute the ultimate betrayal.
Over the course of a year, through cathartic discussions about their favorite novels, they reveal the burdens, bitterness and painful truths they have long been hiding, and in doing so, try to find the courage to open a new chapter in their own lives.
Written with a refreshing insight, Dinner with Anna Karenina takes an absorbing look at the complex lives and friendships of modern women. From their concealed rivalries with each other to their ongoing trials with husbands and lovers, award-winning author Gloria Goldreich’s lyrical narrative captures their individual voices and struggles, with poignancy, humor and truth.
Every month they gather over good food and wine to discuss their favorite books: six very different women-not quite friends, not quite strangers. Enid is a successful psychiatrist, brilliant yet inexplicably dissatisfied; Donna, torn between two lovers, dreams of family but fears commitment; Rina’s destructive fantasies may be her downfall; Pat and Hedy are sisters as dissimilar as they are competitive; and Connie is the envy of all her friends with the perfect career, the perfect family, the perfect life. Brought together by their love of literature, they share a deep understanding of one another?or so they think.
Then Connie, the woman seemingly so happy, announces that she is divorcing her husband for reasons she refuses to share.
The ensuing drama that unfolds forces each woman to explore the secrets shaping and burdening her life as they speculate about what could have happened-and what, in their own circumstances, would constitute the ultimate betrayal.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 舉辦讀書會，似乎是知識份子之間高級的交際活動。但在這個讀書會裡，書本一開始是人與人之間高舉的盾牌，後來竟然成為溝通的媒介。原本多麼驕傲的主角們，透過小說文本，他們願意傾聽、訴說、逐漸揭去躲藏與虛偽，也對身旁的人產生好奇、同情，最後形成相互支持的體系。(TT)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold to Bertelsmann/Poland, Ediciones MAEVA/Spain, Evoluta/Serbia, Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia, Samenwerkende Uitgeverijen Meu/Netherlands, Paul List Verlag GmbH/Germany, Newton Compton Editori Srl/Italy, and RAO/Romania.
MIRA Books has sent us a veritable bevy of books by novelist Gloria Goldreich, including our first material of her newest novel OPEN DOORS, which will be published in the US in just two short months!!
Gloria mines the trials of old age with protagonist Elaine Gordon, an acclaimed artist who finds herself at seas in a life she no longer recognizes. Elaine has spent the better part of a lifetime devoted to her soulmate Neil—overwhelmed with grief at his recent passing, Elaine sees in the time left her nothing but a shadow of her former blessings. Anxious to console their mother in her time of grief, Elaine’s four grown children urge her to put everything on hold and spend some healing time with them. But visiting each unique and complicated child opens Elaine’s eyes to the fact that the children she raised have become adults she hardly knows.
As Elaine tries to bridge the physical and emotional miles, her eyes are opened to the startling truths of her own family, what she must do to come to terms with the lives of her children—and a future that’s completely, wonderfully . . . hers.
A novel of universal appeal, OPEN DOORS is a tender, moving portrait of the trials we all must face, and galleys are now available upon request!
As if one big box of Goldreich’s wonderful writing could possibly not be enough to please, paperbacks of the Goldreich’s previous novel, DINNER WITH ANNA KARENINA have also arrived with notice of its October 1st release in the US!! The breathtaking vibrancy of its refinished cover art matches the heart-stopping press the novel has received: Romance Reviews Today called the novel “beautifully written,” “thoroughly fascinating,” and a “Perfect Ten,” while BookPage raved of the “scintillating” and “magical” novel: “An extraordinary and impeccable keeper.” Let us know if you’d like any softcover copies to cherish and pass along to interested publishers!!

About the Author/作者介绍： Goldreich is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of several novels, including Walking Home and Leah’s Journey, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Her stories have also appeared.
Gloria graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was a coordinator in the the Department of Jewish Education at National Hadassah and served as Public Relations Director of Baruch College of the City University of New York.
While an undergraduate at Brandeis, she was a winner of the Seventeen Magazine short story contest and her first nationally published work appeared in that magazine. Subsequently, her short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Commentary, McCalls, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Mademmoiselle, Ms., Chatelaine, Hadassah Magazine and numerous other magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated.
She is the author of a series of children’s books on women in the professions entitled "What Can She Be?", novels for young adults and Ten Traditional Jewish Children’s Stories, and she edited the prizewinning anthology, A Treasury of Jewish Literature.
Her novel Leah’s Journey won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1979 and her second novel, Four Days, won the Federation Arts and Letters Award. Her books have been selections of The Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Troll Book Club.
She has lectured throughout the United States and Canada.
She is married to an attorney and is the mother of three grown children and the grandmother of six.

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