Eva Hornung

Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010 Introduced by Yann Martel Abandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There, in the rich, smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws, and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's teats. And so begins Romochka's...

The settlement of Wahrheit, founded in exile to await the return of the Messiah, has been waiting longer than expected. Pastor Helfgott has begun to feel the subtle fraying of the community's faith. Then Matthias Orion shoots his wife and himself, on the very day their son Benedict returns home from boarding school. Benedict is unmoored by shock, severed from...

An extraordinary new literary novel from the award-winning author of Dog Boy and The Last Garden. Gem and Will grow up on a farm above the chasm and pool known as the Minstrels, a site where both are broken, each by the other. One will disappear. One will, eventually, be transformed. Through her encounters with people and through art, land,...