Books like Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
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Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger, son of a north German merchant and a dark-haired southern mother, grows up envying his town's ordinary, golden-haired boys and girls, and becomes a writer who belongs neither among artists nor among them.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.
Islands in the Stream
Thomas Hudson, a painter living alone on Bimini, is visited one summer by his three sons; later, in Cuba during the war, he hunts German submarines with his boat.
Flagman Thiel
Thiel, a devout railway signalman in the pine forests outside Berlin, remarries after his first wife dies, and the coarse new wife's treatment of his small son begins to work on his mind.
Gertrude
Kuhn, a composer lamed by a sledding accident in his youth, tells of his friendship with the wild opera singer Muoth and their love for the same woman, Gertrude.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
The Desert of Love
In a Paris bar, Raymond Courrèges, now in his thirties, sees again Maria Cross, the kept woman both he and his father, a Bordeaux doctor, fell for years before.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.
Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
The Bread of Those Early Years
Walter Fendrich, who went hungry in the bombed-out cities after the war and now has money and a girlfriend, is sent to meet a girl from his home town at the station and falls for her on sight.
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Raif Efendi, a meek clerk in Ankara, leaves behind a notebook that tells of his youth in Berlin in the 1920s and his love for Maria Puder, a painter.