Christopher Tilghman Knihy

Set against the backdrop of 19th-century industry, the narrative explores the intertwined lives of two families at a Chesapeake Bay estate. As they navigate personal and societal challenges, their central focus is on rescuing a son and daughter from their respective predicaments. The story delves into themes of family, sacrifice, and the impact of industrialization, creating a richly textured and engaging tale that reflects on the past while resonating with contemporary issues.

While visiting the dying owner of the family's estate in order to secure his inheritance, Edward hears stories about his family and land, from an ancestor's 1857 sale of soon-to-be emancipated slaves to a doomed effort to cultivate a peach orchard.

A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc.

With a strong sense of place and family history, the stories in this stunning collection reach for a deeper understanding of fatherhood, embracing both the son's point of view and the father's. A true storyteller (Los Angeles Times), Christopher Tilgham probes the deepest source of feeling--familial, erotic, spiritual--in fiction of of impressive scope and maturity.

Thomas Gunkel, 1956 in Treysa geboren, arbeitete mehrere Jahre als Erzieher. Nach seinem Studium der Germanistik und Geografie in Marburg begann er, englischsprachige literarische Werke ins Deutsche zu übertragen. Zu den von ihm übersetzten Autoren gehören u. a. Larry Brown, John Cheever, Stewart O’Nan, William Trevor und Richard Yates. Thomas Gunkel lebt und arbeitet in Schwalmstadt (Hessen).