David Ebershoff

This new novel from the author of "The Danish Girl" and "Pasadena" is a spellbinding work of literary suspense, set against the history of the Mormon Church, that combines historical fiction with a m

Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires.The Danish Girls lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.

The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl is an evocative and deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl is a shockingly original novel about one of the most unusual and passionate love stories of the 20th cen

From the author of THE DANISH GIRL comes David Ebershoffs first collection of short fiction, THE ROSE CITY, seven finely crafted stories about young men finding a place in the world.Set in contemporary California and Boston, the stories each recount a moment in their protagonists life when the world begins to shift beneath him: the boy who breaks into a gay mans house to see how he lives; the shy teenager who tries to starve himself away; the tennis tutor who learns too much about the family for whom he works; the strange boy named Chuck Paa who finds employment among the dying. The title story is about an unemployed actor at the end of his youth whose life in Southern California is filled by delusion, and a perpetual search for love.

Copenhague, en 1925. Greta y Einar son una pareja de jóvenes pintores. Ella es conocida, sobre todo, por sus delicados, sugestivos retratos de mujeres. Pero aquella tarde, la modelo no ha venido. Y Greta le pregunta a Einar si por una vez, para que ella pueda terminar la parte de abajo de un cuadro, el se pondria un par de medias de seda, se calzaria unos zapatos de tacon, acaso tambien un vestido que le permitiera acabar de pintar los pliegues de la falda. Einar acepta, y el instante en que la seda del vestido se desliza por su cuerpo supone una revelacion, el momento de la sensacion mas verdadera, como cuando se sumerge en el mar en verano. Pero el oceano de esta zambullida, que ya no tendra vuelta atras, es un mundo de sueños, el sueño por ser Otro. Y asi, acompañado por Greta -porque ambos habitan ese oscuro espacio secreto entre dos personas que constituye un matrimonio-, Einar recorrera un arduo camino al final del cual se encuentra una mujer llamada Lily Elbe, que fue Einar, y que ahora es una chica danesa.

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia VikanderAn enthralling readTHE TIMESHeartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph BOSTON GLOBEBeautifully written. It is absolutely engrossing SUNDAY EXPRESSLoosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, TheDanish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl is an evocative and deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.

Copenhague, en 1925. Greta y Einar son una pareja de jóvenes pintores. Ella es conocida, sobre todo, por sus delicados, sugestivos retratos de mujeres. Pero aquella tarde, la modelo no ha venido. Y Greta le pregunta a Einar si por una vez, para que ella pueda terminar la parte de abajo de un cuadro, el se pondria un par de medias de seda, se calzaria unos zapatos de tacon, acaso tambien un vestido que le permitiera acabar de pintar los pliegues de la falda. Einar acepta, y el instante en que la seda del vestido se desliza por su cuerpo supone una revelacion, el momento de la sensacion mas verdadera, como cuando se sumerge en el mar en verano. Pero el oceano de esta zambullida, que ya no tendra vuelta atras, es un mundo de sueños, el sueño por ser Otro. Y asi, acompañado por Greta -porque ambos habitan ese oscuro espacio secreto entre dos personas que constituye un matrimonio-, Einar recorrera un arduo camino al final del cual se encuentra una mujer llamada Lily Elbe, que fue Einar, y que ahora es una chica danesa.

A Lambda Literary Award FinalistWinner of The Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay FictionAward-winning short stories from the author of The Danish Girl and PasadenaPassion for us all will remain a troublesome thing.The Rose City combines a collection of unforgettable characters with Ebershoffs trademark emotional insight and intelligent prose in seven stories about young men and boys as they discover and rediscover themselves in a world that never really works out as planned. Often tragic but lacking in despair, The Rose City delves into the tribulations of youth, identity, sexuality and longing for something just out of reach. Written with compassion and truth, these stories present characters who live at the margins of the world at the moment they take their first steps toward acceptance and love.

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordans mother - is accused of the crime. Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader of the Mormon Church, tells the sensational story of how her own parents were drawn into plural marriage, and how she herself battled for her freedom and escaped her powerful husband, to lead a crusade to end polygamy in the United States.Bold, shocking and gripping, The 19th Wife expertly weaves together these two narratives: a pageturning literary mystery and an enthralling epic of love and faith.

From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Lindas father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Lindas adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation.

National Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction * Winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award * Finalist for the American Library Association Stonewall Book AwardNow an Academy Award-winning major motion picture, starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom HooperLoosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girls lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.