Sons and Lovers herman all her own

all her own

a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal

civil war ravages the Chinese countryside

introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito

Sons and Lovers herman all her ownAs the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living in poverty like their father. Yet soon William falls ill, and Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating influence through a series of relationships. Closely autobiographical,