Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson presents a powerful collection of fourteen narratives by Australian Holocaust survivors told in their voices. Each individual's account of the war years—and of the life that followed—tells a deeply personal...

Reminiscent of Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, this is a breakthrough novel from a humane and perceptive writer exploring the traumas that divide families and the love and hope that creates them. A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each...

Faithless is a remarkable story about love, literature, family, mortality, and that which survives mortality, among other profound human experiences. – Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizewinner for The Hours "The year's greatest surprise was Alice Nelson's Faithless. The novel, and the author, had been unfamiliar to me. If I say that Faithless is a gorgeous, moving story about love and literature,...