Margriet De Moor

• Nov-1994
• / Suspense
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• Aug-1996
• / General Fiction
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For one entire opera season, Carlotta, a Neapolitan duchess, sits in her candle-lit box captive to her passion for Gasparo, the tantalizing castrato with whom she has been smitten since their childhood together in a small Italian village. De Moor rec...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Flame-haired Lucie raises horses on her father’s farm. One summer day, she meets a dark, handsome stranger named Joseph, and it is love at first sight. But their union is as improbable as their love is deep. For Joseph is a wanderer, a full-blo...

• Jun-2003
• / General Fiction
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MARGRIET DE MOOR'S prizewinning first novel, First Gray, Then White, Then Blue, is at once a powerful mystery about why a husband would murder his wife, and a penetrating investigation of the overwhelming force of obsessive love. Told in various poin...

• Mar-2010
• / Literary
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On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It ...

• Feb-2014
• / Literary
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With an "astute sense of musical form and a wonderful sense of passion" (New York Times Book Review), master storyteller Margriet de Moor, one of Europe’s foremost novelists, once again brings us a richly imagined and highly original tale of passio...

• May-2019
• / Literary
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A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it’s time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a story of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed yea...